Want to elevate your cooking? Use great spices.

“It would be very sad for me to cook without spices,” says Spice King Lior Lev Sercarz, owner of La Boîte, author of A Middle Eastern Pantry, and co-founder of the Galilee Culinary Institute. “They bring a third dimension to your food.”

Spices are ingredients. Just as you would buy good produce and proteins, you need to seek out quality spices to incorporate into your cooking.