Spicey

The English Cooks keep all their Spices in separate boxes, but the French Cooks make a spicey mixture that does not discover a predominancy of any one of the spices over the others.

On each plate a food poem can appear. One might describe eating an ice cream cone on a summer day; another might mention the spicey taste of chili con carne or relishes on a hot dog.

And the spicey smell of chadon beni is everywhere, blessed thistle, a cilantro which grows like a weed.

It’s also a good one to prepare in advance, as the fish balls benefit from an overnight stay in the fridge, plus spicey sauces always bloom, given some time…