Here's how to use this iconic Indian spice blend and a simple recipe to start with. Matt Taylor-Gross Garam masala is an iconic Indian spice blend that is used in a wide variety of dishes including ...

A staple in Indian kitchens, garam masala adds warmth and flavour to dishes. Making it at home ensures freshness and allows you to control spice levels. Here's how to make it: Remove the spices from ...

I am going to let you in on a secret: Most of those bottled spice blends you are buying from your grocery store are nothing more than lightly fragranced sawdust, as far as I'm concerned. By the time ...

After finding ethylene oxide (ETO) levels exceeding permissible limits, Singapore and Hong Kong have banned certain MDH and Everest spices recently. Following the recent incident, the Spices Board of ...

As a girl on her family’s farm in Punjab, India, Kinder Gill tended the open wood fire beneath a tandoor (or oven), and her mother trained her in how the bread was baked at high heat. Fast-forward to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Cooking is incomplete without the use of spices. A spice is any seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance used for flavouring or colouring food. Spices can completely transform a dish and it ...

What a time to be alive when the world is finally, in a mainstream nod, waking up to the infinite virtues of good old desi cooking. The complex flavours, the layered aromas and the explosion on our ...

First lesson of Indian cooking -- not all brown powders are curry powder. Second lesson -- don't confuse heat and warmth. Especially in Indian cuisine, they are wildly different concepts. Third lesson ...

When I was a child, people would often recommend classic books that they thought I ought to read. I would try, but sometimes a book would be hard to understand and I would put it aside and then come ...