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Cumin

Zira

Family: Cumin

Earthy and sweaty; the dominant note in urojo and in most mishkaki rubs

Cooked with in 170 dishes across 26 food worlds

West Africa · 2 dishes

The Horn · 10 dishes

North Africa · 13 dishes

East Africa and the Islands · 5 dishes

Southern Africa · 1 dishes

The Levant and Anatolia · 10 dishes

The Gulf and Arabia · 11 dishes

Persia and the Caucasus · 2 dishes

The Indian subcontinent · 33 dishes

The Sinosphere · 2 dishes

Mainland Southeast Asia · 2 dishes

Maritime Southeast Asia · 6 dishes

Korea and Japan · 1 dishes

Central Asia and the steppe · 7 dishes

Iberia · 6 dishes

Central Europe · 1 dishes

Britain and Ireland · 4 dishes

Mesoamerica · 10 dishes

The Caribbean · 10 dishes

The Andes · 14 dishes

Amazonia · 2 dishes

The Southern Cone · 6 dishes

North America · 6 dishes

Mainland Brazil · 2 dishes

Aotearoa and Australia · 1 dishes

Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia · 3 dishes

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