Kitchen Pepper

The spice trade shaped globalized markets and enabled exploration on the land and over seas. This is not so much a recipe, but an suggestion into sustainable consumption of spices we have in our cupboards. The idea here is to have an all-purpose seasoning from your kitchen pantry in a perpetual blend to season daily meals like your breakfast eggs and potatoes or vegetable soups. Unlike a garam masala, toasting spices are not necessarily needed, but can be an optional step if you bulk purchase your spices. Other spice blends, like the half packet of ramen noodle seasoning (because a full packet is too salty) can be incorporated into your Kitchen Pepper blend. For historical context behind Kitchen Pepper, as the American Colonial South flourished off the labor and skill of enslaved Africans, see the John Townsends video for additional context.