Five-spice powder five-spice powders. Five spice may be used with fatty meats such as pork, duck or goose. It is used as a spice rub for chicken, duck, pork and seafood, in red cooking recipes, or added to the breading for fried foods. Five spice is used in recipes for Cantonese roasted duck, as well as beef stew. It is used as a marinade for Vietnamese broiled chicken. The five-spice powder mixture has followed the Chinese diaspora and has been incorporated into other national cuisines throughout Asia. In Hawaii, some restaurants place a shaker of the spice on each patron's table. A
New Mexican cuisine in traditional New Mexican cuisine, but one of the defining tastes of Santa Fe style. Cumin, the quintessential "Mexican food" spice, is used very differently in New Mexican food, usually reserved for spicing ground beef and sometimes other meats for burritos, tacos, and nachos. It is not used to flavor red and green chile sauces. Oregano is a sparingly used but common spice used in traditional New Mexican dishes. There have been several restaurants and restaurant chains serving New Mexican cuisine. New Mexican cuisine New Mexican cuisine is the cuisine of the Southwestern US state of New Mexico, the region