I love cooking, though I don’t get to cook much. For some reason spices interest me. Did you know Black Pepper has been used as:
currency
sacred offering to honor the gods
pay taxes
pay ransoms
More later!
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Comment from reader Eyebee on History of [...]
HISTORY
Cinnamon has an interesting history and a variety of uses including uses as a spice, medicinal uses and even as an embalming agent in ancient Egypt. It emerges into history from the earliest Chinese texts on the subject of botanical medicine about 2700 BC, and more recently in the bible as early as about 1400 [...]
