Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Because spices are important



These days, some spices so pervasive in our tables that we hardly think of them as all the spices ... Black pepper is the most obvious example here, but I would include in the form of chili sauce and pastas as well. Just think about the shakers salt and pepper on almost every table, and the hot pepper-based ingredients that are everywhere. Also, look at any time to find the recipe, and if they are for a tasty dish I guarantee that more than 90 "% season with salt andPepper "somewhere in the owner's kitchen.

Today, black pepper is so cheap and plentiful and it is for us to consider also a time when pepper was rare and incredibly expensive harder. But until recently (and even during the Second World War in Europe), black pepper was expensive and rare. It 'was produced only in India and has found its way to Europe means strange and mysterious.

The first recorded use of black pepper in Europe and North Africa wasTomb of the Pharaoh Ramses II, the two had put pepper in his nostrils as he mummified (and that was 4000 years ago). But Western nations first to use black pepper in detail were the Greeks and brought them to love the spice to the Romans. As a result of the Romans, the first Europeans to India in search of goods on this magical substance (of course, Indian traders were in the opposite direction for centuries!) Travel.

In many ways the perfect black pepperSpice it the "heat" and "field", which raise the taste of a dish but does not bear a trace of bitterness. So there are all foods and a "Pep" in terms of taste, not fit for human consumption (which is why the Romans put pepper in their desserts!).

But what exactly is a spice? In terms of a modern definition, is a typical plant spice obtained from the dried body of a fruit. Thus, the whole fruit (as in cubeba orAllspice or cumin), or is the kernel of the fruit or seeds (as in nutmeg and hay greek and Nigella seeds). In contrast, grasses are the vegetative part of a plant (stems and leaves) and include citronella (tribe), thyme (leaves), oregano (leaves). Spices are also obtained from, starchy roots or tubers of plants. Sun ginger (and its relatives, galangal, etc. Zedoary) spices, such as the medieval spice galangal (a root of a sedge, a grass likePlant).

The man is among the animals that we like the sharpness in our food and many, many odd or spices tend to have to work this note in its flavor. This in turn has led us as a species to a variety of spices in the kitchen and use many of these spices in any way, Echo of the specificity of black pepper.

Therefore, the chili, if introduced into Europe from America in the "Chili" (the association with black pepper) is called. In fact, the greatMost of the spices to 'Heat' on a plate, and very few are exclusively used for their aromatic properties. Chilli is widespread because there are also "heat" gives a flat, but has shifted the focus of black pepper and red pepper, and then, even if not very popular today as the king of spices, black pepper.

Most of our common and not so common spices have a warmth and clarity, black pepper crops in one way or another. But all of them also give a bitternessthe food taste. Good examples are cubeba (common in the Middle Ages) and Senegal Pepper (which is used as a substitute for black pepper during the Second World War). They convey the warmth and clarity to the courts, but the excessive use that still deliver an unpleasant bitter and that is why they have never really competed as a taste of black pepper.

In our desire to add that extra "Pep" to get our food, people have scoured every corner of the world and wetaste and has some very strange things in our courts (beloved Sichuan pepper, Chinese food is a relative of the orange!). But none of the dominance of black pepper and competing in the kitchen. The only change in the near future, is chili.

This means that our love of black pepper has many local spices, which we previously displaced in the past and use it also means that we ignore so many flavors that could usefully be put in our kitchen. Perhaps the time has come,to rediscover some of these lost spices from all over the world to catch up on some 'of our culinary heritage are lost.

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