Isbn: 9798235145962 - the souk of a thousand spices: marrakech: 3 (the flavour hunters) (6 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Three cities in, Pippa Henley and Pieter Doderlein have learned that the best stories rarely announce themselves, they hide in back alleys, behind unassuming doorways, in the specific, careful way someone's hands move when they've done something ten thousand times before. In Marrakech, that story finds them in the winding heart of the souk, where a boy named Idris is helping his grandfather, Sidi Hassan, weigh out spice blends in a stall that has anchored this exact corner for generations.Hassan's Ras el hanout, a blend of dozens of carefully sourced spices, its exact proportions guarded and refined across a lifetime, isn't just delicious. It's a living record of the trans-Saharan trade routes that once carried cinnamon, saffron, and rare peppercorns across an entire continent to land in exactly this stall. But when a sleek French company sends a scout named Camille to Marrakech, offering Hassan a dazzling deal, exclusive global trademark rights to his family's blend, more money than he's ever seen, the offer isn't quite what it first appears. Buried in legal language Hassan can't fully read, the contract would strip his own family of the right to make and sell their own recipe under their own name, forever.As Pippa and Pieter are drawn into Hassan's world, through the sensory overload of Jemaa el-Fnaa's evening food stalls, the quiet elegance of a modern Marrakech restaurant reinterpreting old traditions, and hours spent properly learning to toast, grind, and balance spices the way Hassan's own father once taught him, they find themselves facing a question none of their previous adventures quite prepared them for. This isn't a stall that needs saving from closing. It's a family that needs help understanding exactly what they're actually being asked to give away, and whether there's a version of this deal that lets them keep what matters most.Idris, proud and increasingly torn between his grandfather's old-world trust and his own growing unease, becomes the first local friend across the whole series to properly put pen to paper alongside Pippa and Pieter, writing, in his own hand, the Arabic word Amana: trust, something placed carefully in your care. It becomes the quiet, aching center of the whole book, as the group works not to reject Camille's offer outright, but to negotiate something fairer, one that lets Hassan's family keep their name, their voice, and their future, while still honoring what the deal could genuinely offer.Woven through with the real, layered history of Marrakech's spice trade, a story of exchange, exploitation, and endurance stretching back centuries, The Souk of a Thousand Spices asks what it actually means to own a tradition, and what's lost when something priceless gets reduced to a signature on a contract. It's a story about negotiation rather than rescue, about the difference between a good deal and a fair one, and about a family learning that saying no to easy money can sometimes be the bravest, most loving choice of all.Warm, richly detailed, and unafraid of real complexity, this third installment deepens everything The Flavour Hunters does best: turning food into history, history into friendship, and friendship into the kind of story worth carrying home in a well-worn notebook. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Three cities in, Pippa Henley and Pieter Doderlein have learned that the best stories rarely announce themselves, they hide in back alleys, behind unassuming doorways, in the specific, careful way someone's hands move when they've done something ten thousand times before. In Marrakech, that story finds them in the winding heart of the souk, where a boy named Idris is helping his grandfather, Sidi Hassan, weigh out spice blends in a stall that has anchored this exact corner for generations.Hassan's Ras el hanout, a blend of dozens of carefully sourced spices, its exact proportions guarded and refined across a lifetime, isn't just delicious. It's a living record of the trans-Saharan trade routes that once carried cinnamon, saffron, and rare peppercorns across an entire continent to land in exactly this stall. But when a sleek French company sends a scout named Camille to Marrakech, offering Hassan a dazzling deal, exclusive global trademark rights to his family's blend, more money than he's ever seen, the offer isn't quite what it first appears. Buried in legal language Hassan can't fully read, the contract would strip his own family of the right to make and sell their own recipe under their own name, forever.As Pippa and Pieter are drawn into Hassan's world, through the sensory overload of Jemaa el-Fnaa's evening food stalls, the quiet elegance of a modern Marrakech restaurant reinterpreting old traditions, and hours spent properly learning to toast, grind, and balance spices the way Hassan's own father once taught him, they find themselves facing a question none of their previous adventures quite prepared them for. This isn't a stall that needs saving from closing. It's a family that needs help understanding exactly what they're actually being asked to give away, and whether there's a version of this deal that lets them keep what matters most.Idris, proud and increasingly torn between his grandfather's old-world trust and his own growing unease, becomes the first local friend across the whole series to properly put pen to paper alongside Pippa and Pieter, writing, in his own hand, the Arabic word Amana: trust, something placed carefully in your care. It becomes the quiet, aching center of the whole book, as the group works not to reject Camille's offer outright, but to negotiate something fairer, one that lets Hassan's family keep their name, their voice, and their future, while still honoring what the deal could genuinely offer.Woven through with the real, layered history of Marrakech's spice trade, a story of exchange, exploitation, and endurance stretching back centuries, The Souk of a Thousand Spices asks what it actually means to own a tradition, and what's lost when something priceless gets reduced to a signature on a contract. It's a story about negotiation rather than rescue, about the difference between a good deal and a fair one, and about a family learning that saying no to easy money can sometimes be the bravest, most loving choice of all.Warm, richly detailed, and unafraid of real complexity, this third installment deepens everything The Flavour Hunters does best: turning food into history, history into friendship, and friendship into the kind of story worth carrying home in a well-worn notebook. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. The Souk of a Thousand Spices | Marrakech | Rowan Atlas | Taschenbuch | The Flavour Hunters | Englisch | 2026 | Rowan Atlas | EAN 9798235145962 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.…