The curved seed with five lighter brown ridges has a pungent aroma that, like the flavor, is warm and bittersweet, sharply spicy, with a note of dried orange peel and a slight but lingering hint of anise. Cultivated as biennial, caraway is used in Jewish cooking (rye bread, cracker seedcakes) and North African spice blends (Harissa, Tabil). Net weight: 1 lb.