Cumin - Information and Spice Variations

In the last decade, cumin has increased a tremendous amount in popularity here in America. This likely is a result of us cooking in more international dishes. Cumin is used heavily in Hispanic cooking but also Indian dishes along with the cuisine of many Middle Eastern countries. Any good chili you taste probably has cumin as in ingredient. We grind our cumin seed fresh weekly, the freshness makes a wonderful difference. Some folks like to buy the whole seed, and then toast it before grinding, this brings out a delightful somewhat nutty flavor. Our newest edition to our cumin department is organic cumin, we are excited that spice growers are now also concerned about organic products, this was a long time in coming.