Spice up your life with Arun Kapil

Joe McNamee talks to Arun Kapil the founder of Green Saffron and an evangelist for spices, about his latest book.

Arun Kapil is at pains to stress that his new cookbook, Fresh Spice, is not an Indian cookbook. Sure, his name fits the bill and the Anglo-Indian Kapil can look the part; anyone familiar with the long, snaking queues in quest of a curry from one of his Green Saffron farmers’ market stalls, would be surprised to hear he’d write about anything other than Indian food.

But Kapil is emphatic: “Sure, my dad is Indian but my mum is English and I grew up eating as much ‘English’ food [much of it identical to a typical Irish diet] as I did ‘Indian’.”