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sazón

Convenience food gets treated as the lesser version, but for migrant families working long hours it was also the thing that kept the cooking going.

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Cultural layer

Origin

The Spanish-speaking Caribbean; a seasoning blend of coriander, cumin, garlic and annatto, made at home long before it was packeted

Routes

Industrialised in the twentieth century into foil sachets sold across Latin America and the United States, usually with MSG and artificial colour added

Context

Sazón was a household blend before a company put it in a sachet, and the sachet is now what most people mean by the word. The orange colour that identifies it is annatto, an Indigenous American pigment, doing the same work it does in cheddar. Convenience food gets treated as the lesser version, but for migrant families working long hours it was also the thing that kept the cooking going.

Route

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