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E122 SPICE

  • Writer: FACTORALY
    FACTORALY
  • 6 days ago
  • 1 min read

Simon is a star (anise). Bruce is feeling spicy.


Today, we take spice for granted. There's a whole area of the supermarket dedicated to it. But it hasn't always been that way. Spice was almost priceless only a few hundred years ago and the search for it cost untold lives. This episode delves deep into the spice rack and comes out smelling wonderful! As always, click on the pics and links for more aromatic rabbit holes.


The History of Spice


Spice and Medicine


Peppercorns & Spices as Currency


Spice and the West


Explorers and Spice


Spice as Drugs


The Spice Girls


Mulled Drinks


Anethole in Spices (and Drinks)


Spice Painting

Anandam Hari Goshala's largest spice painting








 
 
 

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