Wow! Partial as we are to the complex spicing of Indian, Thai and Mexican cooking, this was too much undiluted raging fire even for us.
I loved the stuffed cabbage ($15.95), steaming ovals of spiced beef wrapped in cabbage leaves and served with mounds of tangy sauerkraut, but I was disappointed in the goulash ($7.95), the famous soupy stew of beef and vegetables, which lacked the complex spicing of the other dishes.
When people think of southern Mediterranean food, they tend to think of the complex, spice-intensive dishes of Turkey and northern Africa.
Great Indian food, as I've discussed in some detail recently, tastes vibrant, fresh--made today --with a bewitoday --with of complex spices today --withy dish into something sui generis.
Furthermore, we previously reported a strong correlation between dental plaque and tongue coating in regard to colonization of red complex spices [ 6].
He's cooking more Cantonese-style dishes using cornstarch, seafood and rice, but he's still working on deepening the flavors in his cooking, including replacing his go-to bottle of sriracha with more complex spices and chiles.
That riesling will get along wonderfully with the raw sea scallops under a dusky sprinkle of berbere, the complex Ethiopian spice blend that throbs with chiles and dried ginger.
He says the salad is Moroccan — and it's somewhat familiar in that way, with carrots cooked until tender but crisp and dressed with a complex spice mixture — but the finishing touch of yogurt and a couple of handfuls of cilantro (literally! 21/2 cups!) seems to take it someplace else entirely.
Historically brewed as refreshments for laborers toiling in the fields of Wallonia, saisons are known for a complex spice flavors provided by unique yeast strains.
Food writer Waverly Root calls garlic the "tuba" of the spice orchestra rotund and ridiculous, perhaps, but essential to the complex "tonality" of a dish.
