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Many people in the ancient world believed spices came from paradise. The egyptians mummified their dead with cumin, the chinese burnt cloves to commune with the spirit world, this is a clove tree. Now cloves that we use in cooking are the dried flowers and some Medieval Europeans that come from this tree. Believed nutmeg was the plant originated on some the only cure for the plague. Incredibly small volcanic pepper was so valuable islands called the moluccas, it was used instead of money, and centuries ago, thousands of people and it was pepper that the romans were so mad about. Lost their lives fighting over the little thing, because it was more valuable than gold. Imbued with magical properties, im in the roman ruins of baalbek, situated 50 miles sought after for medicines east of beirut in lebanon. And aphrodisiacs, with the power to build empires here in baalbek once stood the most impressive and destroy lives, temples outside of rome. This is the story of spice. They took 10,000 s
In india, home away from home, a catholic stronghold surrounded by muslim india. Like the chinese and the arabs before them, they came for indias fantastic spices pepper, cardamom, turmeric, ginger, and cinnamon. Indias keynote dish, the biryani, makes use of many of the spices which brought the portuguese to india. But many more spices are from the far ends of the spice trails. Can you guess which are native to india . Padma is on the case. Master chef Mehboob Alam Khan is inviting me to his home to cook his specialty the biryani. Ginger and garlic paste. Garlic and ginger. Now this is a common ingredient for all most of the indian cooking. Also give me some turmeric. Where did you learn to make this biryani . Oh, at my house, from my mother. Give me the red chilies. Some cinnamon stick. The lychee cardamom. And you leave the shell on . Now give me some onions. These have been fried, correct . This is fried crisp, fried onions, you see . And now you see i crush them with my hand. Now