Here’re most popular spices to cook most popular dishes and drinks. Of course, you should not add them alltogether. You need to consider originality of taste, correct dose, experimentation, learning existing and creating your own recipes and secrets.
So here you won’t find ready recipes, but only a list of spices, which you can use in these or that dishes. Becoming acquainted with them, you will assure that all “overseas” spices are quite replaceable by local herbs, including those we consider weeds.