Photo by: Christina Arokiasamy

Christina Arokiasamy

CHRISTINA AROKIASAMY, of Indian descent, was raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She began her culinary career working in her family’s kitchen and spice stall before cooking in various Four Seasons resorts throughout Southeast Asia. Arokiasamy opened the Spice Merchant’s Cooking School in the Pacific Northwest, where she lives with her family.

Books by Christina Arokiasamy

• Published by Crown Publishing Group

  The Spice Merchant's Daughter

  Recipes and Simple Spice Blends for the American Kitchen

  It was the aroma. The exotic scent of spices: rich, alluring, and almost magical. A scent that would sometimes overpower the freshness in the air and sometimes subtly mingle with it to create a tantalizing bouquet. A scent that would always bring me back to my childhood.
  
  Growing up enveloped in the aromas of her mother’s spice stall in Kuala Lumpur, Christina Arokiasamy developed an artist’s sense of how to combine and use spices in traditional and innovative ways. In