Assignment 144: Qatar

“Smell this,” said Eric, holding a small dish under my nose. The warm aroma of toasted cumin seed and coriander seed rose from the bowl. He would later add pepper, cinnamon, fenugreek, turmeric, black lemon zest, and saffron to finish what Qataris call bazaar spice.

Assignment 140: Faroe Islands

“There aren’t a lot of Faroese food blogs,” Eric remarked, as he trawled through online resources in an effort to build a menu. Many of the recipes he did find were going to be impossible to make — stuffed puffin and fermented pilot whale blubber just wasn’t available at our local…