Your attitude towards making food or nutrition is mostly based on culture. It takes into account experiences that you had growing up. What you liked and did not like should now, as an adult or grown child, take shape.
Today, it is a matter of getting to the right supermarket which stocks it at the best price. Sometimes the spices come to you via delivery. My have times have changed.
It is like the sofrito (onion, garlic, and tomato) of Spanish cooking or mirepoix (carrots, onion, and celery) in French cuisine. It is the most basic of flavor profiles. It is the starting point where dishes get their flavor.
