1.   Although he makes the seven spices and the pickled beets from scratch, they can be purchased, he said.

2.   My guide takes the saffron and puts it in the bottom of a plastic bag with the cardamom and the other spices.

3.   Some Eastern herbalists believe the two spices have libido-enhancing qualities.

4.   The three princes and the five spices had a private five-minute meeting at the Empire Theater in Leicester Square before the screening.