Re:Based Cooking
by jfengel on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:33PM
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Given the amounts they're talking about, it's definitely not a tablespoon. A tablespoon of cumin to a pound of chicken is almost certainly too much.
Hey may mean something else, including his own spoon of perhaps a half-teaspoon, which would also be a reasonable amount of spice. There's enough slack in spicing that a factor of 2 wouldn't be inedible, especially if you're serving it with a starch like rice. But a factor of 3 is almost certainly more than intended.
That's not an American thing, not since the 19th century. That's just failing to follow the conventions.
Hey may mean something else, including his own spoon of perhaps a half-teaspoon, which would also be a reasonable amount of spice. There's enough slack in spicing that a factor of 2 wouldn't be inedible, especially if you're serving it with a starch like rice. But a factor of 3 is almost certainly more than intended.
That's not an American thing, not since the 19th century. That's just failing to follow the conventions.