Spice Health Heroes
Cookbook

Period Living - 2017
Spice & Simple

Spices, earth’s refined alchemy, not only enhance the flavour of our food, but have impressive healing qualities to support health, inner balance and wellbeing. Natasha MacAller shares some tasty and nourishing recipes. Read more

Vanilla Table
Cookbook

The English Kitchen - March 2015
Vanilla Table . . . Two Tone Chocolate Malt Cake

I was recently sent the most exquisite cookery book for review.  Entitled Vanilla Table, and written by Natasha MacAller, it is a culinary celebration of all things vanilla.  Containing 100 recipes it boasts contributions from some of the elite of International Award Winning Chefs . . .  including the UK's Yotam Ottolenghi, Peter Gordon, William Curley and Galton Blackiston! Read More

NZ House & Garden - 2017
Spice Up Your Life
These recipes follow the centuries–old tradition of using spices for flavour as well as their health-giving properties. Read more

Foodism - 2017
Watch this Spice!
Found out how spices can improve your wellbeing as well as your food, with a new book by Chef and writer Natasha MacAller. 
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Gourmet Business - Fine Cheese & Charcuterie  - January 2017
From the Deli Bookshelf
For thousands of years spices have been used for medicinal purposes as well as for seasoning food. They are one of the oldest foods used by humans and are integral to virtually every traditional cuisine on earth.   Read more 

Eat Healthy Magazine  - 2016
Spice up your nibbles!
Spices aren't just there to add flavour to your cooking. They have health benefits too, whether that is getting your circulation going with a blast of chilli or calming your mind with a soothing tea. 
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THE LONDON TIMES
Weekend

The Times London Weekend  - November 2016
Six spicy lunches for the weekend
Cook your beef in a blend of spices or make a hot chilli relish for your whole roast fish. The chef Natasha MacAller shares her top lunch party recipes. Read more

Food At Heart  - November 2016
Spice Health Heroes: it’s time to get spicy
There are lots of cookery books out there – my own bookshelves are a testament to this – so when it comes to a new one, I’m always on the lookout for something a bit different. And Spice Health Heroes is just that. It combines the culinary and medicinal in an extended love letter to a range of delicious spices. Read more

FarmersGirl Kitchen - November 2016
Cocoa Butter Roasted Veggie Salad and Spice Health Heroes
At a time when culinary medicine, the exciting link between food and medicine (and food as medicine), has become one of the hottest health topics, Spice Health Heroes will stimulate all your senses and show you how to create dishes that not only taste fantastic but may help you feel fantastic too. Read more

London Daily Express - October 2016
Subtle spices: Chilli-lime chicken and swiss berry quilt cake recipes
If you have never tried cooking from scratch with spices. I would recommend this book. Read more

Broadway World - Food and Wine - October 2016
Hot New Cookbook Alert - SPICE HEALTH HEROES
Once in a while, along comes a cookbook that will find itself equally at home in your kitchen or on your coffee table. Not only that, SPICE HEALTH HEROES might also make you healthier. Read more

 Glamorous Glutton - October 2016
SPICE HEALTH HEROES by Natasha MacAller
Stuffed with more than 100 recipes Spice Health Heroes is a wide ranging look at the health benefits of spices.  This is the second book by Ballerina Chef Natasha MacAller. Read more

Booklist (American Library Association)  - April 2015
Vanilla Table: The Essence of Exquisite Cooking from the World’s Best Chefs. 240 p. Quarto/Jacqui Small, hardcover, $40. (9781909342866). 641.6382.

Never again will these three words be linked—plain, Jane, and vanilla—after falling in love with all foods  vanilla-touched as shown in MacAller’s first culinary collection. A former ballerina seeking a new livelihood, McAller—and her cooking career—soon began trotting around the globe, organizing food extravaganzas and consulting on recipes along the way. She begins her paean with a short treatise on the vanilla bean: where it comes from (Madagascar, Mexico, Tahiti, and Indonesia) and its various formats. The more than 100 recipes follow, separated by starter, main, blue, brunch, and sharing plates, with dessert, cake, cookie, bevvie, and bar-snack dishes taking up the rest of her book. Originally published in New Zealand two years ago, it’s a wondrously photographed and detailed assemblage; determined to make her recipes truly global, she includes metric and avoirdupois weights as well as identifies ingredients by common names in different countries. She’s joined in this vanilla craze by such well-known names as Gale Gand in Chicago, Jonathan Waxman in New York, Nancy Silverton in L.A., and 30 others (all listed and dutifully biographed in one of her appendixes). The dishes are intermediate to advanced; such offerings as fennel flan with orange gelée, cashew foam, and vanilla oil; vanilla lacquer duck leg; the plum study (three different types of plum desserts); and even coronation chicken on squashy poppy buns should probably not be attempted by the novice.

Library Journal – April 2015
Vanilla Table: The Essence of Exquisite Cooking from the World’s Best Chefs. Jaqui Small: Quarto. 240p. photos. index. ISBN 9781909342866. $40. COOKING

Thirty-three chefs—including Yotam Ottolenghi, Sherry Yard, and Gina ­DePalma—contributed recipes to this elegant collection of sweet and savory recipes flavored with vanilla. Dividing restaurant-worthy dishes into nine course-based chapters, chef and former ballerina MacAller highlights a variety of applications for the popular fragrant pods. Beautifully photographed recipes such as steamed barramundi and fregola salad, crunchy cornflake chicken, and creamy butterscotch pudding list ingredient quantities in three units of measurement and include instructions that assume some basic cooking knowledge. MacAller’s efforts to translate potentially confusing terms (e.g., cornflour/cornstarch, shrimp/prawns) are mostly successful, if occasionally unnecessary. VERDICT With its wealth of savory recipes and intermediate to advanced preparations, this vanilla cookbook will complement sweet titles such as Shauna Sever’s Pure Vanilla.

Miami Herald, Cooks Corner- November 2015
Vanilla is more exciting than it gets credit for
I once scorned vanilla, made fun of those who chose vanilla ice cream over more-exciting flavors, even referred to the blandest person I ever met as Mr. Plain Vanilla. Read more

Black Pepper Chai Truffles
Recipe from Vanilla Table

Pepper, spice and vanilla-infused cream with milk chocolate – a truffle for now, and one for later! Read more

The Taos News Lifestyle - November 2015
Cookbook is a feast for the eyes
The cookbook “Vanilla Table” by Natasha MacAller arrived recently in the mail.  Read more

Review From The House - May 2015
Natasha MacAller: Dancing Chef author of Vanilla Table
A professional ballerina turned professional chef, who has just authored a cookbook in which Vanilla is the star!
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Create Amazing Meals - May 2015
Vanilla With Fish? Yes, Please!
Natasha MacAller’s Vanilla Table was born out of her passion for the singular flavor and fragrance of the fruit of the Vanilla Orchid. 
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PopSugar – May 2015
This is What Gives Vanilla its Iconic Flavor
Vanilla extract adds that extra something-something to our cookies, cakes, muffins, and vanilla beans taste great in ice cream and cocktails, but how much do we really know about the spice other than it’s delicious and classic? Read more

Kitchen Delights - March 2015
Review: Vanilla Table by Natasha MacAller
Vanilla Table, the essence of exquisite cooking from the world’s best chefs, is a culinary celebration of all things vanilla. Read more

Farmersgirl Kitchen – March 2015
Creamy Butterscotch Pudding from Vanilla Table
Do you remember Butterscotch Angel Delight?  Well this is nothing like that, it is rich, creamy and sweetly caramel flavoured, a really indulgent treat. Read more

Make it Shabby – March 2015
From the Bookcase: Vanilla Table by Natasha MacAller
If you thought vanilla was boring it’s time to think again. In her new book Vanilla Table, Natasha MacAller proves that vanilla is anything but. Read more