10 versatile spices to keep in the kitchen

Original idea by @chris407x

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1. Salt

My last name means salt man. Most dishes would be inedible without salt. Maybe that's a cultural thing? Check out the following video by a Vietnamese YouTuber who lives in Germany:

2. Sugar

Everything with salt becomes a tiny bit better with some sugar.

3. Black pepper

From the pepper mill

4. Garlic

Medicine, repellent and aphrodisiac

5. Chili

Either as chili pepper or cayenne pepper. I love spicy food, but I would never go as far as the people who visit Chili Klaus.

6. Paprika powder

Indispensable in soups and goulash

7. Turmeric

Beneficial remedy and main ingredient in curry

8. Fish sauce

A modern successor to the Garum sauce popular with the Romans

9. Cumin

One of my universal spices. It makes almost everything taste more interesting

10. Thyme or oregano

Essential sweetness and complex spiciness