One fruit, several products, and two distinct sensations that most people assume are the same thing. Here are fifteen.
1. It Is a Dried Fruit
Peppercorns are the fruit of…
Dry heat does two things to spices, nuts and seeds: it releases what was locked inside them and it creates compounds that were never there. Here are fifteen.
1. Moisture…
There is a jar in a great many kitchens containing a pinch of thin red threads that cost more per gram than almost anything else in the house. Most people…
A spice blend is a solved problem: someone worked out the proportions long ago and the recipe stuck. Here are twelve from around the world, what goes into them, and…
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Most home cooks have a spice rack and a pantry full of staples they reach for on autopilot, rarely stopping to think about what these ingredients actually are, how…