Kindred: The Comforting Recipes, Spices and Seasonal Rituals of Our Childhood

A pinch here, a teaspoon there ... spices have the power to single-handedly yet simply transform your everyday cooking and baking. Sisters Maria and Eva Konecsny, founders of the beloved Australian Gewürzhaus spice stores, take you into their homes to share the spice blends, seasonal rituals, celebrations, traditions and recipes from their German heritage that bring their families around the table. Maria and Eva will teach you how to use spices every day to elevate your cooking. Learn key principles for spicing different types of food, how to blend spices to make versatile mixes and bring incredible flavour to meals through the addition of just the right spice. You’ll find comfort in more than 80 recipes from Maria and Eva’s heritage, whether it’s salted orange marmalade, saffron minestrone, chicken schnitzel with lavender crumb or spiked brown cherry cake. While treasured seasonal rituals include eye dyeing at Easter, Mothers’ Day mushroom foraging, and the bunte teller, a plate of colourful cookies to share at Christmas time. Kindred will inspire you to come together around the table with your loved ones, discover the food paths of your own kin, and transform your cooking and baking with rhythms that sustain you into the future.

Sisters Maria and Eva Konecsny founded Gewürzhaus in 2010 when they opened their first store in Melbourne, and now have stores all across Australia. Gewürzhaus sells more than 350 single-origin spices and mills over 100 exclusive small-batch blends. For Maria and Eva, cooking from the heart has always been an integral part of connecting four generations of women in their family. This goes back to their grandmothers, Oma Rosa and Oma Liesel, who nurtured them in the kitchen from day dot. These women, in many ways, laid down the foundations of Gewu]rzhaus, putting care, love and courage into the meals they prepared for their families.