409 - What are your favorite herbs and spices ?

Everyone has different tastes and preferences in herbs and spices on their food.

We were all introduced to at least a few spices as children, depending on where we were raised.

Where spices were once used to cover the flavor of spoiled meat, they are now used to create exciting new dishes.

It's such an amazing planet we will on that provides endless possibilities to flavor our foods.

I once read a story about 2 mothers who had each adopted one of twin baby girls.

When the little girls were about 2 years old, the mothers met.

One mother was distraught that her daughter would only eat if she put cinnamon on the food.

She complained, "The only way I can get her to eat is to put cinnamon on everything. I don't know what to do".

The other mother had a more positive mindset. Her daughter also loved cinnamon.

She said, "It's incredible, my baby will eat anything if I put cinnamon on it".

Same scenario, different perspectives.

As we become more diverse and accepting, spices are one of the things that can bring us together for great conversation.

In restaurants and even the workplace, you now see a widening array of herbs, spices and sauces where salt and pepper used to be the only choices.

There are places were people prefer their food without any added flavor. Most will call that food bland.

To each his own!!

Spices are available to us all. The beautiful thing is, we can each decide for ourselves how to flavor our foods.

Be brave and try some new herbs or spices this coming week.

What are your favorite herbs and spices ?