Prima di begin to suggest highly aphrodisiac dishes to eat in the company of lovers, boyfriends or husbands in a room lit only by candles (and maybe with a fireplace that brontolicchia softly ...), you would like to offer some useful information about the world of spices .. These are in fact, that makes a dish more or less challenging ...
A BRIEF HISTORY RECONSTRUCTION:
Spices, with their colors and scents in a position to provide for to mind exotic worlds and distant, have always played an important role in human life and were even leading actors in the history of civilization intersect wars, geographical discoveries and commercial crossroads.
addition to be fascinated, to appreciate its culinary use in garnishing and flavoring dishes and sought to exploit its therapeutic properties in medicinal recipes and secrets, spices were often used by humans as a means of payment and barter.
Their absence in the Western world and the difficulty in finding (often due to hesitation in establishing trade with the Muslim populations of the countries of which originated) makes them invaluable assets to the point to be used as "currency."
The "currency fragrant (cinnamon) for example, was donated to popes and kings, and could be used for paying taxes and fees.
The low supply of these goods in the European countries would often phenomena of counterfeiting and adulteration by traders who, if caught in the act, could be very severely punished with fines, seizure of assets, imprisonment or even the conviction of arson.
Scents and flavors of these essences transform the simplest dishes in a vehicle capable of bringing our imagination to exotic locations and far between colorful bazaars and oriental sounds, capable of making us experience emotions only after the first taste ..
typical African dishes containing different spices ... abound in using them, I recommend ...
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