Ginger

• carrots
• chicken
• chocolate
• fruit
• gingerbread
• ham
• ice cream
• melon
• onions
• pork
• pumpkin
• rice
• tomatoes

Each ingredient does a different dance. Each dish does a different dance. A créme anglaise with ginger does a soft, dreamy waltz. When I think of a spicy pork stir-fry with ginger. I get an image of a big dance floor with lots of ingredients doing a real energetic dance, with the garlic and chiles spotting each other, and suddenly breaking out into their own riveting lambada! —Norman Van Aken