Riches in our Cupboards
8 November 2008 by Jean Johnson
Americans! We Can Eat Well & Tighten Our Belts! There was a time when only the rich could afford expensive spices. Ah, yes. We all remember the famed Spice Route to Asia. Just Google it, and you’ll find maps, mystery, and intrigue. You’ll find references to cardamom, turmeric, ginger, and cinnamon. Those wonderfully exotic sticks and pods and blossoms and powders.
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So, what better way to eat well while tightening our belts than to make full use of the riches in our cupboards. Of the full range of spices that are there just waiting for us to pop the lids–or even better, do them up fresh in our coffee grinders.
Spices really do make Plain Jane food sing–plain food as humble as beans & rice.
Here’s to dipping pears in butter and allspice, lacing quinoa with cardamom, and putting pinches of coriander, cumin, and cayenne in a pot of pintos. Totally amazing how a little spice can make food rock.
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