I love the book. Its really practical and easy to adapt the recipes to your own local ingredients. I find many books require you to have all kinds of specific tools and ingredients and I almost never have what is needed. They end up just collecting dust on my shelf.

I don't see why you couldn't use turmeric root if you happen to be so lucky to have some. I had my first taste of fresh turmeric last week and it is so nice! I would gladly try to make a batch if I could find enough of the root.