Peppers are a supporting actor in her California sea bass kebabs with eggplant, peppers and the North African spice blend charmoula.

With that slender, crisp chili-and-sweet-potato roulade she serves excellent duck breast dusted with zaatar, a breezy North African spice blend.

It goes with almost any kind of flavor, with herbs and mustard, or with Oriental, North African or Latin American spices.

Botanical and culinary writers have made the error of referring to the chilli as the African spice, thinking it to be one and the same.

It made Kopec think of couscous and North African spices.

They simply offer a small list of standards with Mediterranean and North African spices and textures.

Recent offerings included Middle Eastern lamb chops with North African spices at $16.50, and lamb shish kebab at $15.50.

She often incorporates Indian and African spices into these traditional recipes.

Ms. Rios later enlightened me: harissa, the North African spice blend, and, of all things, cardamom.

In 1965 the company's laboratories released the first series of artificially designed paste, where African spices were replaced with cheaper ingredients available in Europe.