WHY YOU SHOULD TOAST AND GRIND SPICES
Toasting and grinding your own whole spices releases their oils, which emboldens their flavors and heightens their impact. The result is a robust freshness that’s often lacking in preground spices, especially those that have been lurking in the back of your spice cabinet for a long while. Besides amping up the flavor of spices, grinding your own can also add texture, since you can determine how coarse or fine the finished product will be. We turn to this technique in two recipes in this issue. In
