Chef De Spices
“The History of Spices, It was during those times that date back hundreds of years, making India the ‘Spice Bowl of the World’. Arabians, Romans, Egyptians, Chinese, British, and Portuguese invaded India with the same purpose: to profit from the vast natural resources and origin of spices. Buying black pepper, cinnamon, cloves, and other spices is so inexpensive now, but once, they were as expensive as gold and silver.”
History of Spices
The Vedas (about 6000 BC) provide the first written record of spices in India and make mention of Black Pepper.
Portuguese
The Portuguese Vasco da Gama found Calicut on India’s southwest coast in 1498. He returned with a massive haul of nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, ginger, and peppercorns. By 1511, the Portuguese controlled the spice trade of the Malabar Coast of India and Ceylon. Until the end of the 16th century, their monopoly on the spice trade to India was exceptionally profitable. The caravans trading spices moved from Calicut, Goa and the Orient to the spice markets in Babylon, Carthage, Alexandria, and Rome. For hundreds of years, traders also used ships which sailed along the Indian coast.
Arab & Tales
The Arabs told even more incredible tales about cinnamon, which grew on high peaks near Arabia. Gigantic birds would carry cinnamon sticks to their nests. To obtain these cinnamon sticks, the people would arrange enormous portions of fresh donkey flesh near the nests of these birds, and the birds would take the hefty meat chunks to their nests. These towering nests would collapse from the weight of the meat pieces and tumble to the ground if they had sufficient support. The villagers then gathered the cinnamon sticks and sold them to the Arabs at exorbitant prices.”
Taste of India
Indian food and its taste is famous all over the world; the delicious aroma, great taste, unique colour, and finger-licking flavour. All these together make a perfect blend and are found in Indian foods only. The secret of the delicious flavour of Indian food is its rich spices that are used for hundreds of years and spread all over the world.
Aromatic herbs and plants were used for healing and medicinal purpose which is used till now. Special qualities of aromatic plants were used to flavour the foods which till now flatter our senses with delicious fragrance, a unique taste, and vibrant colours. At present time, India is one of the largest exporters of spice all over the globe. Most of the spices were born in India because the environment of India unlike any other country in the world is perfect; heavy humidity, high rainfall, and dry and hot weather favour the conditions for the cultivation and growth of different spices.
On the Indian earth all spices are used in normal life, nothing new in it, but we found these spices which are most Aromatic, Flavourful, Tasteful and the real spice mixture in the name of Chef De Spices.
