Spices and Herbs Flashcards
(25 cards)
Who is the world’s first geographer?
Strabo
Most spices come from
tropical climates, such as South-East Asia
Most herbs come from
Europe
Labiatae comes from which word and what does it refer to?
Latin word for lip; refers to the lip-like opening of flowers. Examples are mints, thyme, arugula, rosemary
Who is the Father of Taxonomy?
Carolus (Carl) Linnaeus, born in 1700s. He’s a historical figure in science. Taxonomy is the naming, rnaking and classifying organisms)
Moluccas is also known as? And where is it part of?
Spice Islands in Indonesia
What is mace and where does it come from
Comes from Memboi and is the aril that surrounds the nutmeg
What was the most important ingredient developed in the New World and what was the most common type
Spices; chili pepper
Incense was made from?
spice
Cyrians used mints to?
appease the fire god
The Ancient World relied on spices and herbs for?
medicine
Cinnamon was first mentioned in print by?
Shen Nung, Father of Chinese Medicine
Explain the adulteration of pepper
Pepper was so valuable that people often mixed it with other ingredients and sold it. it happened so often that the government made a law prohibiting it
Spices were the most valuable commodities for thousands of years
Spices were the most valuable commodities for thousands of years
Around ________ years ago, there was biological evidence that spices were traded
52,000
There is evidence that cinnamon originated in?
Sri Lanka
Around 1,000 B.C. who was the master of the spice trade?
Arabs
When did the Romans dominate the spice trade?
40 A.D.
Europeans went crazy over cloves. When did cloves arrive in Europe
335
What was a powerful influence on what’s considered as good food in Europe
crusades
Who took over the spice trade in the 15th century and made it very expensive?
Venetians
Who is the reason why the prices of spices collapsed and how did this happen?
Vasco DeGamma was a Portugese explorer and in 1947 he found spices and sold them elsewhere. From then on, Portugal had the spice trade
What did the Dutch do to increase prices of cinnamon
Burn cinnamon storehouses
Who changed the control of spice so that no one owned the trade?
A Frenchman named Pierre Poivre got a hold of some cinnamon, nutmeg and other spices and smuggled them to France
