Ingredients & staples.

Cardamom, good olive oil, flaky salt, kosher salt, butter, all-purpose flour, eggs, lemons. The pantry staples worth tracking down, and the ones that don't deserve the upgrade. The brands I keep buying, the substitutes that work, the ones that don't. Cardamom is worth ordering from a real spice house. Olive oil quality matters less than you think for cooking and more than you think for finishing. Butter is the thing it is worth spending 50 cents more on. Here is the working pantry.