Are you guilty of skipping the common recipe directive to freshly grind spices like nutmeg, coriander, and the subject at hand: cardamom? Sure, it tacks on time to your recipe prep, but the results ...

What Does Cardamom Taste Like? The flavor of cardamom is complex and a little hard to explain. It has a floral, earthy flavor that works well in both sweet and savory applications. That said, the ...

The typical grocer sells some 50,000 different products. The typical shopper buys the same 264 over and over again. The point of this column? To persuade you to take a second look at some of the ...

In Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, sweet doughnuts called mandazi are eaten for breakfast with chai throughout the year. They’re often flavored with cardamom or cinnamon, but Moju opts to use a bit of ...

If you like chai, it’s because of the enchantment of a single spice out of all the heady flavorings in this Indian tea. Once you taste cardamom, even if you don’t know its name, you never forget it.

In all my years of teaching cooking classes, one spice that always gets an extreme reaction is cardamom. People either love it or want nothing to do with this aromatic and intense spice. The whole ...