Imagine a tasting platter with different dishes from around the world.

You give it a spin and it lands on India.

You take a bite and you taste coriander, saffron and turmeric.

You spin it again and you land on a Lebanese dish.

This time you taste cumin, cinnamon and sumac.

You get hints of lemon grass, basil and chili from Thailand on your third spin.

And on your last, you end up in the U.S. with cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves just in time

for fall.

But how we spice our food doesn't just vary from place to place, it also changes from

person to person.

I'm a frequent visitor of the spice house on Wells, which has spices from all over the

world.

So it helps me to make some new choices and trying new types of spices.

My new favorite is star anise, very tungent, very aromatic and enjoying all the new spices

I'm learning to cook with.

I'm interested in trying with pretty much every any spice.

But by far my favorite spice would have to be cumin.

I love it in the powdered form and in the seed form.

And I'll be honest with you guys, I put it on everything.

Favorite spice currently is sumac.

We had it in some salad at a fantastic Turkish restaurant.

So we've recently purchased it and put it on everything.

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