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means The salts, spices, and herbs you add to food to bring out or improve its flavor.
from From "season," which traveled through Old French "saison" from Latin "sationem" (a sowing or planting time). The culinary sense grew from the old idea of letting food age or mature properly — to "season" wood or food originally meant to bring it to ripeness or readiness over time, the way a season ripens crops. Adding spices to hasten that same sense of readiness is where the kitchen meaning took root.
- salt science
- Enhances flavor by suppressing bitterness, not just adding taste
- cast iron use
- A pan's seasoning is polymerized oil, not spices
- wood meaning
- Seasoning timber means drying it, zero herbs involved
- golden rule
- Season in layers, not all at the end