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Empires were built, wars fought, and continents found chasing flavor you now ignore in the cabinet.
means Flavored, seasoned, or warmed up with spices — or, figuratively, made livelier and more interesting.
from From "spice," which traveled into English through Old French "espice," from Latin "species" — a word that originally meant "appearance, kind, sort," and came to mean "goods" or "wares," particularly the prized aromatic kinds. The same Latin "species" that gives us biological "species" also gives us the cinnamon and pepper in your cupboard; both are, etymologically, just "kinds of thing." "Spiced" is the past participle, the state of having received that treatment.
- worth gold
- Pepper once paid rents and ransoms in Europe
- trade routes
- The Silk Road moved spices, not just silk
- columbus error
- He sailed west hunting spices, hit America instead
- preservation trick
- Spices masked and slowed rot before refrigeration
- nutmeg war
- Holland traded Manhattan for one nutmeg island
mulling spices — traditional blend used in german glühwein and american hot cider since 17th century
garam masala — indian spice blend containing cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, cumin, used in curries across india
ras el hanout — north african spice mixture with 20+ spices, standard in moroccan and tunisian cooking
five spice powder — chinese blend of star anise, cloves, cinnamon, sichuan pepper, fennel for peking duck and braises