Cooking with spices can seem like a dark art. Spices, once the arcane treasure of colonial empires, have become common fixtures of countless everyday meals, but many aspiring cooks still lack a basic familiarity with them. Sprinkling pinches of expensive powders with esoteric names to achieve subtle flavor combination aren’t attractive to many cooks—particularly college students, who are often shopping and cooking for themselves for the first time. For them, it’s difficult to justify buying a new spice without understanding its flavor and how it’s used.
But spices are the key to good cooking. For our ENGN1000 course, Mandi Cai, Arielle Chapin,Kenta Kondo, Nate Parrott and Robert Wang asked: how can we initiate college students into the world of spices, giving them a familiarity with spices that’ll improve their cooking for their entire lives?
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