Some Spicy ThoughtsAromatic trees, shrubs and plants have been used by mankind for uncounted millennia to make good foods taste better and bad foods taste passable, to preserve foods, to freshen and deodorize dank, musty and otherwise disagreeable dwellings, to make the body and breath more socially acceptable, to perfume the living and to embalm the departed. Today’s spice racks are filled with a wide variety of exotic materials gathered from all parts of the world. How well do you know these exotic seasonings and flavorings? True or False
Cloves are the dried flower buds of a tropical shrub or small tree. |