Ways to use powdered sumac 5 Articles

by Vicky Ann Smith

Sumac (soo-MAH-kee) is a Mediterranean spice; it grows in berry form throughout the region with it's warm climate. It also grows in many countries along road sides and in gardens as a pleasant decoration but it is only cre...read more

by Kimberly H.

In Roman times when there was little access to lemons, the Romans had to look for other ways to create that citrus pucker. In present times, it is quite rare to hear of sumac being used in Western Cuisine, but only for the...read more

by Jackie Curtis

Powdered sumac is a spice used extensively in Arabia, Turkey, the Levants, and in Lebanese cooking. The purple-red powder is derived from the ground up berries of the sumac bush which grow in all parts of the Mediterranea...read more

by Rebecca Klemmensen

Sumac is a berry that grows on small trees called shrubs typically found on the roadsides in the Middle East. Sumac originates from Greece. Pedanius Dioscorides wrote in his voluminous " De Materia Medica" ( " on medical m...read more

by Colin Morley

Sumac is a substance little known in the Western culinary world, although varieties of it are native to the Mediterranean area of Europe and to parts of North America. Sumac powder comes from a plant or plants of the genu...read more