‘Spice it Up’ with Levi Roots
The fabulocious Levi Roots is back with a fourth cookery book to bring some Caribbean sunshine and spice to your kitchen.
In Spice It Up! Levi has plundered his spice cupboard and shares his favourite recipes to show how to transform the most simple of dishes into tasty triumphs bursting with flavour.
The Caribbean is famous for its spices, with its vibrant chilies, pungent peppercorns and fragrant nutmeg, allspice and cinnamon. Once as expensive as gold, these ingredients are now easily accessible and in this latest cookery book Levi shows just how easy it is to bring food to life with a sprinkling of spice. Chili is added to fishcakes and potatoes, allspice to mackerel, and nutmeg to cauliflower and custard! Plus Levi also spices up some favourite classics, including a Hoppin Toad in the Hole, Mustardy Macaroni Cheese and even a Caribbean Christmas Pudding.
Featuring over 100 recipes and with chapters packed with ideas for spicing up everything from chicken to chocolate, tropical fruit to tea, root vegetables to rum, this book is full of delicious and surprising recipes. Plus as you would expect from Levi, it’s written in his easy laid back style and accompanied by beautiful photography. Everything in Spice it Up! is easy to prepare, easy to cook and sure to add a bit of spice to your life.
Leiv Roots is a highly successful entrepreneur, cook, musician, and speaker and a role model for those starting up in business. He gained widespread fame in 2006 after appearing on the TV programme Dragons’ Den seeking funding for his Reggae Reggae Sauce. Levi’s company and the Levi Roots brand have since expanded rapidly, launching a wide range of food products. The sauce was named best new food product at the World Food Awards, 2009 and Levi was listed in the business section of The Power List 2010 as one of the most influential black people in Britain.
Levi’s first cookbook, The Reggae Reggae Cookbook, published by Collins, was a great success. Next came Caribbean Food Made Easy published by Mitchell Beazley, a best-selling TV tie-in for his popular primetime BBC2 series of the same name. Food for Friends was published in July 2010 (Mitchell Beazley). Many of his delicious recipes are served at the Papine Jerk Centre, his popular restaurant in south London.
As a successful reggae musician, Levi has performed with James Brown, was friends with Bob Marley, has sung to Nelson Mandela, and was nominated for a MOBO award in 1998. His single ‘So out of my mind’ launched his roots reggae album Red Hot in 2009. In the same year he was named Entrepreneur of the Year by Urban Music Awards.
Levi spends many hours talking to children and students in schools and universities to encourage and inspire them to believe in themselves and to fulfill their personal and business potential. He has received the GAP community award from the Jamaican High Commission for being a community champion and a positive black role model for young people.
For more information, visit: reggae-reggae.co.uk
