Saffron Dreams where color or flavoring matter

Well title this post because the kitchen, sometimes, is to seek the deepest feeling. The flavor more in store for you, making mixes and testing, to achieve surprising flavors.
I have seen many recipes throughout my life and there are times when I mix so new to me but have much sense, that move me so that it stuck with me forever. For example, the cinnamon in the stews of meat, green pepper, cream, chili with chocolate or saffron with the fish. If you look well you will realize that in almost all my dreams are the spices. I have thousands! My room is full of boats with hundreds of spices I've been collecting little by little. Many of them already or be consumed but adore. Sometimes I open the cans and the smell, or pick up a little cinnamon sugar Amsterdam and me get in your mouth. I like picking green beans and cardamom seeds open them to see who is inside. And if someone sees me do this always tell the same story: "Do you know that Hindu brides are given a green cardamom beans to chew it?". Some do not know, but chewing a grain of cardamom is not very nice:). "What for?" They replied. "But that the couple feel out of their mouths a perfect aroma."

The spices are ... the essence of the kitchen. There is a very good book called "Epic & Condiments" in the Larousse Saveurs. If you can get ... not hesitate to buy it. One day I discovered that there was, without having seen him, I fell in love. There was one problem, the book was in French and had not been published in Spain so I had to wait some time to have it. The first time I went to France of the first things I did was run to the Fnac and order ... I waited a few more days would have learned that here in Bordeaux, was the largest independent bookstore throughout France: La Librairie Mollat. Anyway, what I have here beside me with star anise on the cover and travel that has made me.
When you see a little shop of spices you pass not long, because it is they who can make a day almost without noticing, your dishes always have more flavor and aroma that emit lead you to sites that have not even stepped on. It's the magic of the kitchen. It is the art of cooking.