Try These West African Spices in Your Holiday Baking

THIS ARTICLE IS ADAPTED FROM THE DECEMBER 9, 2023, EDITION OF GASTRO OBSCURA’S FAVORITE THINGS NEWSLETTER. YOU CAN SIGN UP HERE. If there’s one thing about the holiday season that gets me down, it’s everything tasting like cinnamon. It’s not that I hate cinnamon, exactly; I just don’t like how it hogs the spotlight in fall and winter when there are so many interesting spices from around the world that are underutilized in sweets and beverages this time of year. The spices that give us a “warming” feeling—cinnamon, star anise,…

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