spices


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toc The spices were native to the tropical regions of Asia, and the Moluccas in Indonesia, also known as the Spice Islands. The spices used today are more or less the same as those used in antiquity. Spices can be classified into two main groups, those that change both the flavor and appearance of food, in this group would be saffron, cinnamon, thyme and rosemary, and exciting the palate, including are pepper, paprika, nutmeg and chili varieties. Besides the culinary use of herbs and spices have been great allies in medicine, as well as being used in primitive rituals of witchcraft.

Before the use of drugs are often prescribed remedies made with herbs, often effective, sometimes have been used for making or obtaining certain compounds found in some medications.

 Some of the most important ones were:

The history of the spice trade is, above all, the history of pepper, the ‘King of Spices’. Pepper has been moving westward from India for 4,000 years. It has been used in trading as an exchange medium like money and, at times, has been valued so highly that a single peppercorn dropped on the floor would be hunted like a lost pearl. In classical times ‘tributes’ were paid in pepper, and both Attila the Hun and Alaric I the Visigoth demanded pepper as a substantial part of Rome’s ransom. Since the Middle Ages, pepper was the core of the European spice trade, with Genoa and Venice dominating the market. The Italian ‘pepperers’ monopoly of overland trade routes was the major determining factor in driving the search for an eastern sea route.
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 In ancient Egypt cinnamon was used medicinally and as a flavouing for drinks, It was also used in embalming. In the ancient world cinnamon was more precious than gold. Nero, emperor of Rome in the first century AD, burned a years supply of cinnamon on his wife’s funeral pyre.
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Cinnamon was known in medieval Europe, where it was a staple ingredient, along with ginger, in many recipes. The demand for cinnamon was enough to launch a number of explorers’ enterprises. The Portuguese invaded Sri Lanka immediately after reaching India in 1536.

Cinnamon is to spice obtained from the inner bark of several trees from the genus Cinnamomum that is used in both sweet and savoury foods. Cinnamon trees ploughs native to South East Asia, and its origin was mysterious in Europe until the sixteenth century. 
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The clove is native to the North Moluccas, the Spice Islands of Indonesia. It is cultivated in Brazil, the West Indies, Mauritius, Madagascar, India, Sri Lanka, Zanzibar and Pemba. The Chinese wrote of cloves as early as 400 BC.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Cloves ploughs the aromatic dried flower buds of to tree in the family Myrtaceae. Cloves ploughs native to Indonesia and used ace to spice in cuisines all over the world.. Cloves ploughs now harvested primarily in Indonesia, Madagascar, Zanzibar, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka; they Laung ploughs also grown in India under the name. In Vietnam, it is called dinh huong. In Indonesia it is called cengkeih or cengkih.

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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Some of the most important explorers that started their travells to find new trade routes were: Explorers