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  • Turmeric: Unfamiliar Foreign Spice to Mainstream Flavor

    A top-down view of a black bowl filled with creamy yellow dal tadka, topped with a vibrant red chili oil seasoning, whole roasted red chilis, and fresh green cilantro leaves. In the background, ingredients like a head of garlic, dried red chilies, and fresh cilantro sprigs sit on a textured gray countertop next to a black pot lid.

    Growing up in an Indian household in Athens, Georgia, I remember when spices were hard to come by. Once a month, my parents drove an hour to Atlanta just to buy spices and herbs for home-cooked comfort food. There was only one store that all the Indians in the Atlanta area went to in Decatur…

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