Spice Market Walk and Lunch Table in Jackson Heights

Guests meet outside a Roosevelt Avenue subway entrance and walk a set route through spice shops, sweet counters and a South Asian grocer, stopping to taste and to talk about how one ingredient travels between cuisines. Buying is part of the walk: each guest fills a bag from a shopping list handed out at the start. The group then moves to a test kitchen a few blocks away, where two dishes are cooked family style, one built on the whole spices bought that morning and one on the pantry staples beside them. Lunch is eaten at a single long table, with questions on food television, recipe testing and location shooting welcome throughout. The session closes with a short talk on stocking a home spice drawer.