I love spicy foods! Spices come from fruits, roots, bark, or seeds. They are used for coloring or to add flavor to food.
That's awesome, I'm also a big fan of spicy foods. There is so much variety in spices.
There are very many spices! They are separate from herbs which are the the flowers and leaves of plants and often used as garnishes.
I did not know that. Do you happen to know where they come from?
Warmer climates are where most spices are found. Warmer climates have more disease and the uses of spices is used in meat which is prone to spoilage.
Ahh, that would make sense I suppose. I live in an area with a colder climate, so they must be far away from me.
in medicine, religious rituals, cosmetics or perfume production.
History.
History Early history.
The spice trade developed throughout the Indian subcontinent and Middle East by at earliest 2000 BCE with cinnamon and black pepper, and in East Asia with herbs and pepper. The Egyptians used herbs for mummification and their demand for exotic spices and herbs helped stimulate world trade. The word "spice" comes from the Old French word "espice", which became "epice", and which came from the Latin root "spec"
List of Australian herbs and spices
Australian herbs and spices were used by Aboriginal peoples to flavour food in ground ovens. The term "spice" is applied generally to the non-leafy range of strongly flavoured dried Australian bushfoods. They mainly consist of aromatic fruits and seed products although Australian wild peppers also have spicy leaves. There are also a small number of aromatic leaves but unlike culinary herbs from other cultures which often come from small soft-stemmed forbs, the Australian herb species are generally trees from rainforests, open forests