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unusual facts about spices



Arequipan cuisine

Chairo is a beef broth marinated with yellow hot pepper, garlic, onion, spices, black chuño (a root), pieces of cured meat, tongue of lamb and patasca (a pork and corn stew).

Attar

Ittar, Attar, or Itr, a natural perfume extracted from the juices of flowers, herbs, spices, and/or barks into a base oil

Bak kut teh

The name literally translates as "meat bone tea", and at its simplest, consists of meaty pork ribs simmered in a complex broth of herbs and spices (including star anise, cinnamon, cloves, dang gui, fennel seeds and garlic) for hours.

Belém, Lisbon

Construction was funded by a tax on eastern spices, and over time came to represent Portuguese historical discoveries, becoming over time a national monument and UNESCO World Heritage Site, housing (in addition to the religious art and furniture from its past) artefacts and exhibitions like the Museu Nacional de Arqueologia (National Archaeological Museum) and the Museu da Marinha (Maritime Museum) within its walls.

Big Secrets

Some of the mysteries Poundstone explores are urban legends (such as what happened to Walt Disney after his death), while others are day-to-day matters which many people may not think to contemplate, such as what barcodes mean, the Coca-Cola formula, secret air frequencies, or what makes up KFC's 11 herbs and spices recipe.

Burliar

The main area is made up of 68 terraces and planted with spices crops like clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, pepper, and vanilla and fruits like mangosteen, jack, durain, litchi, longsal, carambola, grape fruits, rose apple and mango.

Burns Philp

Following the sale of its yeast and spices business to UK firm Associated British Foods, Uncle Toby's to Nestle for NZ$1.1bn, Bluebird Foods to PepsiCo for NZ$245m, and its NZ$676m 20% stake in Goodman Fielder the company became largely a cashed up shell.

Caralluma adscendens

It has been eaten in rural India for centuries, raw, as a vegetable with spices, or preserved in chutneys and pickles, and is often found as a roadside shrub or boundary marker.

Carrack

From around 1515, Portugal had trade exchanges with Goa in Portuguese India, consisting of 3 to 4 carracks leaving Lisbon with silver to purchase cotton and spices in India.

Caudle

In a description of an initiation ceremony at Merton College, Oxford in 1647, caudle is described as a "syrupy gruel with spices and wine or ale added".

Clamato

It is also referred to colloquially as "clamato juice." Clamato was produced in its current form beginning in 1966 by the Duffy-Mott company in Hamlin, New York, by two employees who wanted to create a Manhattan clam chowder style cocktail by combining tomato juice and clam broth with spices.

Cuisine of the Pennsylvania Dutch

Sauerbraten - Or sour roast, is any one of various meats and spices that are marinated for several days in vinegar or wine, vegetables are added to the marinade during the final day.

Cyber Nations

Certain combinations of resources yield Bonus Resources that can be created from the base or "native" resources, such as Fast Food from Cattle, Pigs, Sugar, and Spices.

Degredado

On account of his rudimentary knowledge of Hebrew and Arabic, Nunes was the first to go ashore in Calicut, India, and it is Nunes (not Gama) who uttered the famous phrase "We came to seek Christians and spices".

Echilamvayal

These spices were available in abundance in the Prapoyil and Pulingome region near Cherupuzha.

Eleanor of Woodstock

As she sailed from Sandwich, her wedding trousseau included a wedding gown of Spanish cloth, caps, gloves, shoes, a bed, rare spices and loaves of sugar.

I've Had Enough

Rolling Stone critic Janet Maslin claimed that "I've Had Enough" hints "at a minor mean streak, which "spices up" the London Town album "with a welcome note of discord.

Indian tea culture

Traditional Indian kitchens have long utilised the medicinal benefits offered by various plants and spices such as basil (Tulsi), cardamom (Elaichi), pepper (Kali Mirch), liquorice (Mulethi), mint (Pudina), etc., and traditionally, tisanes made with these plant leaves and/or spices have been in use for centuries for maladies ranging from the serious to the trifling.

Kentjur

Kentjur is a common name for several plants in the Zingiberaceae family native to Asia with rhizomes used as spices.

Khatkhate

Khatkhate Curry is prepared with at least five vegetables, plus grated coconut, jaggery, kokum, tamarind, tirphala/Tepphal (Sichuan pepper- a special spices from Konkan region), dried red chillies, garam masala powder, and turmeric powder.

Kibbie

Kibbeh, a dish of meat mixed with bulgur and spices, popular in the Middle East

Konro

The spicy and strong tasted soup was made from the mixture of various spices especially coriander and keluwak (Pangium edule) fruit that gave its blackish color.

Korean Chinese cuisine

--What exact kind of noodles are these?--> shredded five-spice marinated beef or pork (五香醬肉), cucumber, crab stick, jellyfish, and a fried egg in a cold chicken broth seasoned with soy sauce and various spices.

Ladakh Range

The main town of Ladakh (Leh) was for centuries trade centre for fine pashmina wool (once worth its weight in gold); yak and pony caravans brought in pashmina from Tibet, turquoise, coral and silver from Yarkand and Kashgar, spices, fabrics from India and silk from Kashmir.

Léon Humblot

On the island of Grande Comore, Humblot founded a colonial company that oversaw the operations of several farms, plantations and processing factories for spices and perfumes.

Maritime history of Somalia

Opone – In ancient times, the port city of Opone traded with merchants from Phoenicia, Egypt, Greece, Persia and the Roman Empire, and connected with traders from as far afield as Indonesia and Malaysia, exchanging spices, silks and other goods.

Massimo Zanetti

The Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group owns more than 20 consumer brands worldwide, including Chock full o'Nuts, Chase and Sanborn, MJB, Hills Bros., Segafredo Zanetti Espresso, Meira Oy, Brodies and Tiktak, that span a variety of products from espresso and coffee to tea and spices.

Mathew Macnider

The MacNiders quickly became one of the leading mercantile families there, selling Canadian timber and supplies to the Royal Navy and trading in wine and spices from Europe and the British West Indies to Quebec, London and Scotland.

Minced meat

Mincemeat, a mixture of dried fruit and spices, commonly does not contain any meat

Minhag Morocco

During Havdalah all sorts of fragrant herbs and spices are used in the Moroccan community, including fresh spearmint leaves, rose water, cloves and myrtle branches.

MMST

:And Hezekiah was attentive to them, and showed them all the house of his treasures--the silver and gold, the spices and precious ointment, and all his armory--all that was found among his treasures.

Momordica charantia

In North Indian cuisine, it is stuffed with spices and then cooked in oil.

Muesli

Other ingredients commonly included are additional grated or chopped fresh fruit (e.g., bananas, apples, berries, grapes, mango), dried fruit, milk products (e.g., fresh milk, yogurt, cream, condensed milk, fromage frais, quark, cottage cheese, or nondairy milk substitutes), lemon juice, ground nuts, seeds, spices (especially cinnamon), honey and muesli mix.

Peermade

At a recent show spice growers from Peermade displayed samples of organically grown spices like cardamom, black pepper, white pepper, nutmeg, mace, cloves, turmeric, ginger, vanilla beans, vanilla powder and herbs like oregano, sage, thyme and rosemary.

RPG Group

The company also produces smaller quantities of a variety of other exotic horticultural crops like Areca nut, banana, cardamom, cocoa, coffee, coconut, pepper and vanilla as well as limited quantities of organic tea and spices.

Saure Zipfel

To prepare the dish onions, vinegar, white wine and spices (bay leaves, pepper, clove and juniper berries) are cooked together.

Seasoned salt

Chip spice is also another variation, which originated in Kingston upon Hull and mainly contains salt and spices (such as paprika) but also contains tomato powder.

Shane Delia's Spice Journey

His journey starts in his homeland, the old Phoenician outpost of Malta, where the aromatics and spices of the Middle East mingle with the European traditions of the Mediterranean to produce a unique food culture.

Sherbet

Sharbat, a traditional Middle Eastern cold drink prepared with rose hips, cornelian cherries, rose or licorice and a variety of spices

Spices Board of India

The Spices Board is the Indian government regulatory and promotion agency for Indian spices.

Stracciatella

As translated by Jeremy Parzen, Martino's recipe for zanzarelli reads: "To make ten servings: take eight eggs and a half libra of grated cheese, and a grated loaf of bread and mix together. Then take a pot of meat broth made yellow with saffron and place over heat; and when it begins to boil, pour the mixture into a pot and stir with a spoon. When the dish has begun to thicken, remove from heat and serve in bowls, topped with spices."

Takua Pa District

It was also known as Takkolam (Tamil: தக்கோலம்) which is the Tamil word for “piper cuveba’ and “calyptranthes jambalana. There is also a place in the Tamil country which up to now carries the same name Takkolam. Takua Pa could have either abounded in the spices “calyptranthese jambalana” and “piper cubeba” or it could have been occupied by settlers from the Takkolam of the Tamil country, or both.

The Good Bean

The Good Bean's Roasted Chickpea Snacks are "Desi" variety chickpeas, dry roasted and tossed in spices.

Thekkumkur

Later, the Portuguese and the Dutch established trade relations with both these kingdoms, dealing in black pepper and other spices.

Vaccinium floribundum

It is sold at some markets and is used for a dish celebrating the Day of the Dead along with spices and other chopped fruits.

Valladolid, Yucatán

The typical dish of the region is “Lomitos de Valladolid” which is a pork dish in fresh tomato sauce; Cochinita pibil meat marinated in achiote, which comes from the Bixa orellana bitter orange, and spices, wrapped in Banana leaf and barbecued or baked in a pit; "lechon al horno", "bistek de cazuela", "relleno negro" which is turkey cooked with a paste of charred chillies and vegetables with bits of hard-boiled eggs, "frijol con puerco" and chicken in escabeche.

Wuxiang

Five-spice powder (五香粉), mixture of five spices used in Chinese cuisine

Yıldız Holding

;2010: Yıldız Holding goes into a joint venture with McCormick, USA to expand into spices and cooking aids market.

Yong Peng

During the reign of Sultan Abu Bakar of Johor and under the influence of the British rule in the 1870s, a policy was initiated to modernise Johor and increase tax revenue by opening up more of the forest and swamp area for plantation purposes (initially for spices such as pepper and gambier; then followed by rubber).


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