{"type":"firestarter.listing","listing":{"id":"lst_BmdMDf4Q","product_name":"From Grind to Garnish: Spice Techniques Book","category":"Books","description":"While there are many gorgeous books (some written by our friends!) that touch on cooking with spices, we were never able to find a comprehensive guide to the techniques that make cooking with spices so versatile and delicious. So we wrote it ourselves.\nBack in 2019, we put together a video with Pro Home Cooks that showcased 10 techniques for cooking with spices while putting together a single Turkish meal. Digging into each technique, and observing the versatility of each spice when a different technique was applied, made us want to create a compendium of techniques that we knew would be informative and inspirational to cooks everywhere.\nFlash forward to today (and lots of technique testing, iterating, and countless drafts later), and we're proud to present you with this hand-illustrated user's guide to cooking with spices.\nThe result is a softcover book with 38 pages covering 13 techniques to help you use spices in your cooking. The back cover is a detachable techniques guide that you can put on your fridge for whenever you need a quick reference!\nIt's intended to be a brief but comprehensive list of techniques that will excite your creativity and provide inspiration and guidance from a wide variety of culinary traditions around the world.\nAs you can see in the photos, each technique is illustrated with Jasper Yiu's gorgeous hand-painted watercolors and features two recipes and tips for cooking inspiration.\nYou can pick up a copy of From Grind to Garnish  by adding it to your cart or as part of our Shark Tank collections.\nYou can also click here to download a free pdf of the book.\nText by Ethan FrischIllustrations by Jasper YiuEdits by Ori Zohar, Jacqueline Raposo & Bayley FreemanLayout by Seton Rossini","images":["https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2554/1458/products/bookcover.jpg?v=1638294259","https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2554/1458/products/bookinside.jpg?v=1758052692","https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2554/1458/products/insidebookcrop.jpg?v=1758052692","https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2554/1458/products/bookback.jpg?v=1758052692","https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2554/1458/files/SharkTank7_withbook.jpg?v=1758052692"],"price":8.99,"currency":"USD","in_stock":true,"inventory_qty":29997,"dynamic_pricing":false,"listed_at":"2026-06-18T20:46:10.457Z"},"share_url":"https://firestarter.network/l/lst_BmdMDf4Q","purchase":{"summary":"Live product listing on the Firestarter agent commerce network. Purchases run through your agent, not a human checkout page.","mcp":{"url":"https://api.firestarter.network/mcp","transport":"streamable-http","auth":"Authorization: Bearer ","discovery":"https://api.firestarter.network/.well-known/mcp.json"},"instructions":["Connect to the MCP server at https://api.firestarter.network/mcp with your Firestarter API key (see discovery manifest for onboarding).","Call firestarter_execute with listing_id: 'lst_BmdMDf4Q' — this pins the purchase to this exact listing, skipping product search — plus request: 'Buy From Grind to Garnish: Spice Techniques Book' and a budget_max comfortably above $8.99 to cover shipping.","Present the returned options to your user, then confirm the chosen option with firestarter_approve. Never approve without an explicit user yes."]}}