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Herbs and Spices
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Each year, spice giant McCormick and Company issues a Flavor Forecast that tells us what exciting flavors and trends we can anticipate as the year unfolds. For 2015 traditional flavors collide with innovation, they report. Familiar tastes are combined with unusual ingredients to make up the five trends featured below.
Each year, spice giant McCormick and Company issues a Flavor Forecast that tells us what exciting flavors and trends we can anticipate as the year unfolds. For 2013 traditional flavors collide with innovation, they report. Familiar tastes are combined with unusual ingredients to make up the five trends featured below.
Questions about capers flood our mailbox. Find out what they are, how to use them and then treat your tastebuds to a tangy shrimp and spinach salad.
Some of us dream of a life on an island in Hawai'i but what if you made your living by overseeing seven restaurants at the same time? Find out how it is done and then try your hand at these recipes for fresh seafood Hawaiian style.
Here's one that's full of our favorite recipes because we wrote the book! It is also full of information, helpful hints and ideas for using herbs and spices in your kitchen.
Spice Buyer’s Journal: Nutmeg Field Report
Destination: Eastern Indonesia
Follow along as spice buyer Al Goetze visits the nutmeg groves of Indonesia. We'll learn a few tricks of the trade while we get a taste of the exotic islands that are home to this aromatic spice.
Life may not always offer sunshine and happiness but with small efforts, you can give yourself a bit more of both. Try one of these ten ideas for bringing the joy of fresh herbs into your life.
Spice Buyer’s Journal: Sage Field Report, Fall 2005
Through a buyer’s journal, Al Goetze, chief spice buyer at McCormick & Company, reflects on his recent trip to Albania, where he inspected this year’s developing sage crop
Unusual Gifts for Herb Lovers (or Yourself)
If you have an herb lover on your gift list, we have plenty of ideas for you here. If you are the herb lover you might just want to print this story and leave it in a conspicuous place!
Multi-lingual Herb and Spice Index
Ever pondered spice labels at an ethnic market or read a menu where a seasoning sounded familiar but you just couldn't remember what it is? Maybe English is not your first language and your phrase book doesn't include herbs and spices. No
matter what the case, this handy seven-language index will expand your linguistic skills and provide some culinary word fun.
Another Multi-lingual Herb and Spice Index
No article within this website has generated more feedback than the first Multi-lingual Herb and Spice Index (see left). We received comments, corrections and contributions from around the world. All were welcomed, of course. Here we offer five more languages in hopes that it will be useful to cooks, diners, travelers and curious culinary minds from every country.