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The Kitchen Café: 07/04/2016

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Spices are the week's theme and Clare English is joined by cookery writer Sumayya Usmani.

Spices are the week's theme and Clare English is joined by Sumayya Usmani, who talks about her new cookery book, plus Riverhill restaurant owner Johnny Aitken discusses vanilla.

It's all a bit spicy on this week's Kitchen Café. Vanilla - the second most expensive spice in the world has taken a further hike in price. Clare hears why this is the case but also finds out that it's not just in ice cream and cheesecake we use vanilla - it's also the perfect match with fish and shellfish - as well as being used widely in pharmaceutical industry! Chef Johnny Aitken from Glasgow's Riverhill restaurant takes Clare through a number of dishes - savoury and sweet which benefit from the addition of vanilla and founder of Littlepod, Janet Sawyers gives us the origins of the spice as well as explaining why it's so expensive. 
Cauliflower pakora with moong lentil batter is also on menu when Clare joins lawyer come food writer Sumayya Usmani who was taught to cook by her mother in the galley kitchen of her father's ship. Sumayya's book Summers Under the Tamarind Tree is out this week.

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