On Food and Cooking

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Chapter 8 Flavorings From Plants Herbs and Spices, Tea and Coffee The Nature of Flavor and Flavorings Flavor Is Part ...

Herbs, Spices, and Health Handling and Storing Herbs and Spices Preserving Aroma Compounds Storing Fresh Herbs Drying ...

The Bean Family: Licorice and Fenugreek Chillis Other Temperate-Climate Spices A Survey of Tropical Spices Tea ...

the ancient world they were more than mere foods: they were thought to have medicinal and even ...

enjoyed in foods before agriculture made eating both more reliable and more monotonous. And because smell is on ...

A Brief History of Spices The story of spices is a colorful one, and has been told many times. It t ...

Asia; Columbus reached the Americas, the home of chillis and vanilla, in 1492, and Vasco da Gama ...

The Nature of Flavor and Flavorings Flavor is Part Taste, Mostly Smell The function of herbs and spices is to a ...

or aroma. Herbs and spices heighten flavor by adding their characteristic aroma molecules. (The exceptions to ...

and powers. So herbs and spices became important in the sacrificial fires and incense of religious ceremon ...

gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. Awake, O north wind; and come, thou ...

the sense of smell does far more than provide information about a mouthful of food. Smell detects whatev ...

savanna, from meat scraps on an animal carcass to nuts, fruits, leaves, and tubers. They relied on taste and ...

In the time of classical Greece and Rome, when spices were much used in religious ceremonies and in per ...

to explore and manipulate the world of natural materials around us, to change those materials to suit our n ...

play in the lives of the plants themselves? One simple clue is their very potency. Try the experiment of ...

that can train some animals to be deterred by smell alone. Turning Weapons Into Pleasures: Just Add Food And ...

Most Flavorings Resemble Oils The flavorful material in an herb or spice is traditionally called its esse ...

cells. Some dry spices are as much as 15% essential oil by weight, and many are 5–10%. Fresh and dry herbs g ...