In January, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas welcomed Twist of Spice, a truck that serves authentic Mexican food.

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Food writer Waverly Root calls garlic the "tuba" of the spice orchestra--rotund and ridiculous, perhaps, but essential to the complex "tonality" of a dish.

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The style of food in the Gaza Strip owes much to its port, which was on the ancient spice route linking south Arabia and the Mediterranean.

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