Do you love to cook? Do you like to try new flavors and recipes? Or maybe you are in a cooking rut and don’t know how to start expanding your cooking repertoire. Join the Spice Club and take your cooking to the next level with featured spices and recipes to infuse excitement and flavor into every style of meal!
The Loomis Library Spice Club hosts monthly meetings to enhance our understanding and appreciation of different cultures through the lens of spices. Each month we explore a different region, a featured spice blend, ancient grains, and more! We will provide vegetarian recipes highlighting the featured regional cuisine and sample the recipes provided.
How it works:
Each month the library will provide a spice kit curriculum package that can be picked up at the monthly meetings or during normal business hours after the meeting date. Preregister for one or all workshops!
Each kit will include:
- Information and history of a featured spice, spice blend, ancient grains, and more!. We will explore regional cuisine and cultures, and botanical information of the featured spice.
- Two or more recipes featuring the spice or spice blend.
- Pre-measured samples of the spice, spice blend, or ancient grain, for the recipes*
* while supplies last
We will meet in person on the scheduled dates (see below) for an informal meeting, and sample the featured recipes.
April 22nd, 2025 from 6:00 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Spice: Lentils
Registration is Full
Lentils originate from Southwest Asia’s countries (Turkey, Syria, Iraq), from where they quickly spread to the Mediterranean countries, including Spain. The oldest remains of their cultivation date back to 6,600 BC, making them one of the oldest foods cultivated by man, almost 9,000 years old. The Egyptians considered lentils a daily staple food and a symbol of prosperity. Later, the Greeks and Romans began to use lentils in their diet.
Today, lentils are a universally beloved pantry staple. Whether a singular star ingredient or combined with other components in a dish, there is no denying the importance of this nutritional powerhouse in many cultures.
