TIP: Add Turmeric To Foods

Turmeric is a rhizome with edible roots that grow underground horizontally. It’s related to ginger, which it somewhat resembles in external appearance. Most Americans know turmeric as a deep gold spice that gives its intense color to curry powder. It’s been used for millennia to impart its color to foods. In the last century, it…
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RECIPE: Turmeric-Spiced Chicken with Tomato-Avocado Salsa

Enjoy the recipe as a taco or atop salad greens. Photo courtesy McCormick. Turmeric and vine-ripened tomatoes, the 10th and last in the series of McCormick’s 2010 flavor trends requires a bit of a wait—unless you’re into “faux” vine-riped tomatoes (more about that in a moment). Turmeric, long consumed as a restorative tea in Okinawa,…
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