BY CARRIE BOYD PHOTOS CARSON DOWNING RECIPES BY NIK SHARMA
FOOD STYLING: GREG LUNA
78 | September 2019
foodMASTER CLASS
NIK SHARMA
ON TURMERIC
Turmeric, a nubby root closely related to ginger, adds an herbaceous,
peppery note and a rich, buttery color to everything it touches. Thanks
to the root’s rising popularity on the health and wellness scene, you
increasingly can find fresh turmeric in grocery stores. But what to do with it
once you get the rhizome home? We asked Nik Sharma to guide us. The
cookbook author and blogger’s recipes invigorate doable dishes—grilled
pork, chicken soup, granola—with flavors drawn from unlikely inspirations.