Spices are commonly misused and have the potential to completely ruin a meal, but they also have a massive potential for intense flavours and beautiful cooking.
One of my main aims for this brief was to create a way of visually representing the best ways of cooking and somehow categorising the spices and creating a reference book to help people use them. For this I need to learn the main differences and ways of categorising spices in relation to heat, origin / location, their standard uses e.g. Poultry, fish, salads etc.
I also want to create a similar reference guide to that of a periodic table allowing the packaging to be very minimal with just codes on the top of the spices and a simple reference table...
Main sources of origin for spices - Great info HERE
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Central & Northern Europe, Mediterranean region, Asia - North/ South/ East/ West/ Central, Africa, America, Australia. - Think about creating icons for each, possibly using geographical shapes of the areas of letter codes?
Main uses for spices
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Salads, poultry, beef, sausages, desserts, sweets, pastries, sauces, stews, soups, fish, breads, pickling, pork roasts, custards, fruit desserts, vegetables, stuffing,
Main places that use spices as key ingredients
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Curries, Mexican, Vietnamese, Thai, Spanish, Italian,
Other Lists could include
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Medicinal Purposes, use as preservatives, cooking
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