#spices

I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices. ↗

— Aarti Sequeira

#because #encouraged #food #i #indian

I am more of an herb guy than a spice guy. It comes back to a certain conservatism I have regarding food. The French are not big on spices; they use more herbs. I know the spices used in European cooking and use them in moderation. I am not going to serve a dish that is wildly nutmegged!" David Waltuck, Chanterelle NYC ↗

— Karen Page

#herbs #spices #food

After 1656 the Dutch, who had gained control over the Moluccas, chose the islands that could be most easily defended. They then burned all the nutmeg trees on the other islands to make sure no one else could profit from the trees. Anyone caught trying to smuggle nutmeg out of the Moluccas was put to death. The Dutch also dipped all their nutmegs in lime (a caustic substance) to stop the seed from sprouting and to prevent people from planting their own trees. Pigeons, however, defied these Dutch precautions. Birds could eat nutmeg fruits, fly to another island and leave the seeds behind in their droppings. ↗

— Meredith Sayles Hughes

#spices #death

Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors... Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat... What then was music created for? Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves? I think I know. ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#disguise #masks #music #perfume #spices

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#colonies #confederacy #continued #country #dependent

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#because #food #garlic #just #keep

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#english #english language #famous #great #james

Under the auspices of peace, our comprehensive renaissance will be built, and it will be a model for those who wish to emulate it in the greater Arab homeland. ↗

— King Hussein I

#auspices #built #comprehensive #emulate #greater

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#baby #book #cannibal #genuine #lovingly

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#egyptians #forever #get #go #home