‘It’s cheesy umami’: the woman behind some of the best US spices shares her 19 kitchen essentials

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According to The Guardian’s source item, ‘It’s cheesy umami’: the woman behind some of the best US spices shares her 19 kitchen essentials, Sana Javeri Kadri, co-author of the new Diaspora Spice Co Cookbook , told us about cooking for her two toddlers and hauling 30lbs of rice on flights from India The seven best nontoxic cooking pans in the US, tested in a food lab Sign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better things Sana Javeri Kadri, founder of Diaspora Spice Co , wants you to stop letting the spices in your pantry languish. “I think people are really scared of their spice cabinet, or they ignore it,” she said. A decade ago, she started a successful spice company with the goal of building a more transparent spice supply chain and putting fresher goods on grocery shelves. Now with Diaspora Co Cookbook , which came out in March, Javeri Kadri wants to share what you can do with all that turmeric, black pepper and cardamom: “This book teaches you how to use spices very intuitively,” she said.

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