Here are some friends with simlar question as we.And I have this question for many days,anyone help us?
Kitty said: Yes.How did spices come about?-I try seach this on internet but no results found.Maybe this is a stupid question.
Mike said: oh,no,you are wrong.I have found as below for this question(How did spices come about?),it will help you,my kids.
Answer:
A Brief Timeline of Spice History:
50,000 BC
By this time, archeologists believe man had noticed that certain leaves impart delicious flavor to meat.
2300 BC
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Good resources:
http://www.theepicentre.com/spices/spice...
http://www.astaspice.org/history/frame_h...
http://www.spiceadvice.com/history/index...
Spices have been prominent in human history virtually since their inception. Spices were among the most valuable items of trade in the ancient and medieval world. In the story of Genesis, Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers to spice merchants. In the biblical poem Song of Solomon, the male speaker compares his beloved to many forms of spices.
Spices were one of the primary reasons Portuguese navigator Vasco Da Gama sailed to India in 1499. After Christopher Columbus returned from the Americas, he described to investors the many new spices available there
well, ginger and baby were friends first. they met up with sporty, who introduced them to scary, who was dating posh at the thyme
Spices have been used in cooking for thousands of years, can you imagine, you have dried meat from the previous autumn and by the spring it's getting a bit "high" and tastes bad, what better to flavour your dinner than spices, They came to Europe via the "Spice Roads" from the far east,
To understand the nature of spices, it is necessary to understand the difference between spices and herbs. Spices are tree barks, nuts or roots and in some cases minerals (salt springs to mind.). Herbs are flowers, leaves or foliage. Since the earliest cooking utensils were probably the bark from trees, it is likely that early man found that some barks added a pleasing flavor to the foods and searched for specific barks to use in cooking, then passed this information on to the next generation. Usually the items were burned, or cooked in foods, however there are those whose purpose is only for incense used to mask community odors. Some became so prized they became rare and thus were sought by those in power, or of wealthy status, as a means to please the gods in sacrifice.
i guess as a seasoning thing to make food taste better in times where it was bland or to cover up nasty flavours when preservation was hard or bad quality especially in hotter places where food went off or meat quality was poor
Spices were primarily used to offset the taste and smell of meat going bad. Refridgeration and preservation were not available in the old days and often the meat wasn't fresh. Some spices also killed off much of the bacteria growing.
Ever since the world realised that ,girls (little & big) were made of sugar & spice,& all thhings nice.
I guess by now you know all you want to know about spices, so I won't bore you further! Suffice to say that someone somewhere discovered that they a) preserved their food,B)
Killed the bacteria and made food palatable and c) just generally made boring old stuff more interesting!
You're not going to like this answer. When spices were first brought back to England by the marauding pirates (Francis Drake et al) they were used to disguise the taste of meat which was well passed it's sell by date - no refrigeration in those days.
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Kitty said: Yes.How did spices come about?-I try seach this on internet but no results found.Maybe this is a stupid question.
Mike said: oh,no,you are wrong.I have found as below for this question(How did spices come about?),it will help you,my kids.
Answer:
A Brief Timeline of Spice History:
50,000 BC
By this time, archeologists believe man had noticed that certain leaves impart delicious flavor to meat.
2300 BC
In>******************************...
Good resources:
http://www.theepicentre.com/spices/spice...
http://www.astaspice.org/history/frame_h...
http://www.spiceadvice.com/history/index...
Spices have been prominent in human history virtually since their inception. Spices were among the most valuable items of trade in the ancient and medieval world. In the story of Genesis, Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers to spice merchants. In the biblical poem Song of Solomon, the male speaker compares his beloved to many forms of spices.
Spices were one of the primary reasons Portuguese navigator Vasco Da Gama sailed to India in 1499. After Christopher Columbus returned from the Americas, he described to investors the many new spices available there
well, ginger and baby were friends first. they met up with sporty, who introduced them to scary, who was dating posh at the thyme
Spices have been used in cooking for thousands of years, can you imagine, you have dried meat from the previous autumn and by the spring it's getting a bit "high" and tastes bad, what better to flavour your dinner than spices, They came to Europe via the "Spice Roads" from the far east,
To understand the nature of spices, it is necessary to understand the difference between spices and herbs. Spices are tree barks, nuts or roots and in some cases minerals (salt springs to mind.). Herbs are flowers, leaves or foliage. Since the earliest cooking utensils were probably the bark from trees, it is likely that early man found that some barks added a pleasing flavor to the foods and searched for specific barks to use in cooking, then passed this information on to the next generation. Usually the items were burned, or cooked in foods, however there are those whose purpose is only for incense used to mask community odors. Some became so prized they became rare and thus were sought by those in power, or of wealthy status, as a means to please the gods in sacrifice.
i guess as a seasoning thing to make food taste better in times where it was bland or to cover up nasty flavours when preservation was hard or bad quality especially in hotter places where food went off or meat quality was poor
Spices were primarily used to offset the taste and smell of meat going bad. Refridgeration and preservation were not available in the old days and often the meat wasn't fresh. Some spices also killed off much of the bacteria growing.
Ever since the world realised that ,girls (little & big) were made of sugar & spice,& all thhings nice.
I guess by now you know all you want to know about spices, so I won't bore you further! Suffice to say that someone somewhere discovered that they a) preserved their food,B)
Killed the bacteria and made food palatable and c) just generally made boring old stuff more interesting!
You're not going to like this answer. When spices were first brought back to England by the marauding pirates (Francis Drake et al) they were used to disguise the taste of meat which was well passed it's sell by date - no refrigeration in those days.
correctness,It's Non-profit and only for informational purposes.
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