Ian Hemphill

Ian Hemphill

Managing Director, Herbie’s Spices

https://www.herbies.com.au
Ian Hemphill can’t remember when herbs and spices were not a part of his life. The younger son of John and Rosemary Hemphill, who pioneered Australia’s love of herbs and spices in the 1950’s, Ian earned his pocket money picking herbs and remembers many a season when the family home was strewn with bunches of drying culinary produce. Ian worked with his parents for many years, managed a spice company in Singapore and was a senior manager for a multinational food company in Australia. In 1997 Ian and his wife Liz opened a specialty spice shop in the Sydney suburb of Rozelle, which bears the nickname Ian has had since school, Herbie’s. Author of The Spice & Herb Bible 3rd Edition. In 2015 it was a finalist in the ‘Reference and Scholarship’ Category of the James Beard Awards, which many consider to be the ‘the Oscars of the food world’. Ian enjoys sharing his lifelong obsession with herbs and spices, and is a prolific communicator about the world of spices in particular.

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Ian's favorite cookbooks

Fragrance & Flavour

Fragrance & Flavour

The first book on herbs to be written by an Australian, published in 1959. The book is creatively written and appealed to home cooks.

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Edna's Table

Edna's Table

These 2 cooks did more than anyone else to introduce Australians to Australian native ingredients, many many years before they became trendy!

Jerusalem

Jerusalem

Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi

This remains his best work to date. Every recipe we have made has worked and brings Middle Eastern cuisine to the world in an approachable manner.

The Gretta Anna Recipes

The Gretta Anna Recipes

Gretta Anna was a classic cook who ran classes and inspired hundreds of cooks through her classes long before the age of celebrity chefs.

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Salades

Salades

Damien Pignolet

This classic French style chef has put together a collection of inspiring salad recipes.