The spice industry has evolved from primitive humans flavoring meat with leaves, to multi-billion dollar companies injecting chemical compounds into common foods; from tasting a few minute grains on entrées to feeling a discharge of natural and artificial flavors from exquisite candies, and from scavenging the world for priceless spices to inspecting every ingredient for harmful side-affects.
The first speculated accounts of adding flavorings or spices to food go back over fifty thousand years, when primitive humans used aromatic leaves to flavor food (Add Spice). They wanted to cook meat in a hot pit, so they wrapped it in leaves to protect it from soot and ash. After taking the meat out of the greens, they noticed a distinct change in flavor. Thus the art of seasoning was born (The History of Spice). And that art was not officially seen until thousands of years later.
The first recorded use of spice, in 3000 B.C., was from an Assyrian myth, which said "gods drank sesame wine the night before they created the earth". But spices were not developed until 200 B.C., when the Romans sailed from Egypt to India for spice trade and valued spices as highly as gold. Spice trading continued in Rome until around 1200, when Marco Polo's exploration of Asia established Venice as the most important trade port. Columbus then arrived in America in 1492 with a partial-plan to find spice. About fifteen years later, Magellan took voyage to sail west around the world with five ships. Although he died in the Philippines, one ship returned to Spain, bringing back enough pepper so that the trip was a financial success.
After several countries participated in spice trade, it finally entered the United States in 1797 by Captain Jonathan Carnes. He brought the first large cargo of pepper from Sumatra, which put the U.S. in world spice trade for the first time (Spice Advice). By 1805, the U.S. reached the peak of pepper trade with Sumatra, and exports alone totaled seven million pounds that year (Spice History Timeline). The spice industry started in 1821, in Boston, Massachusetts, where the first nameless spice grinding company was formed (Spices: Time Line).
Other spice and flavor companies formed as well; today they are huge corporations. Two of them, International Flavor & Fragrances (IFF) and McCormick, started out with a few ideas and a concrete plan.
To any top chef around the world, nutmeg is a highly prized spice. Nutmeg is known for its aromatic, aphrodisiac and curati...
Dale Morris was salesmen by trade and culinary hobbyist by night. Morris experimented with traditional home cooking and more exotic gourmet cooking; he was health conscience and read a lot about the health hazards of the American diet. Through his hobby he acquired an appreciation for herbs and spices. Morris created a low-salt seasoning mix, based on a nutritive yeast extract, which could be used to replace salt in most cases. Morris debuted his seasoning salt mix at Thanksgiving dinner in 1993, and it was a hit! From there while continuing and excelling at his day job, he perfected his seasoning salt mix over the next couple years. Morris test marketed his product through a church group while searching for ways to expand and commercialize
In the time of Europe many difficulties came across. The trade to the new word became a trade boom in the 15th century. There was import demand on the companies and the rising export supply became too much for the natives to handle. In the rise of exports the supplies had to be shipped from Asia to the Americans. In the American land, where the majority of Europeans desired to sail to, the new sailors that came were not accepted as Americans, though none were truly considered Americans until later in the time of America. “The sea trade had multiplied by leaps and bounds” (Hale, John R.513). The route of trade was soon taken by Spain and some of the ships were entering to the new world. There was a demand for food in Europe at the time of Columbus and the main sea route for trade was between the North Sea and the Mediterranean. As the trade increased, Europe began to receive products including, pepper, this gave Europe the better of a chance to sail to the new world. The trade in Europe made Europeans richer in the sense of knowledge and began to bring Europeans to a different level of communication with the other lands.
The immediate cause of the European voyages of discovery was the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. While Egypt and Italian city-state of Venice was left with a monopoly on ottoman trade for spices and eastern goods it allowed Portugal and Spain to break the grip by finding an Atlantic route. Portugal took the lead in the Atlantic exploration because of the reconquest from the Muslims, good finances, and their long standing seafaring traditions. In dealing with agriculture, The Portuguese discovered Brazil on accident, but they concentrated on the Far East and used Brazil as a ground for criminals. Pernambuco, the first area to be settled, became the world’s largest sugar producer by 1550. Pernambuco was a land of plantations and Indian slaves. While the market for sugar grew so did the need for slaves. Therefore the African Slave start became greatly into effect. Around 1511 Africans began working as slaves in the Americas. In 1492, Columbus embarked on his voyage from Spain to the Americas. The Euro...
Sorry Starbucks, you didn’t start the pumpkin spice fad, in the 1700s Colonists would cut off the tops of pumpkins and fill them with milk, spices and honey, then bake them in hot ashes!
Culinary garlic is one of the most medically studied herbs today. it has been cultivated since the Neolithic period around 10,000 BC. This bulb has flavored the food of hunters and nomads after the discovery of its intensively robust flavor. The summarians (2600 BC-2100 BC) were actively practicing the healing powers of garlic, and some believe the summarians to have introduced garlic to China, from where it later spread to Japan and Korea. However, some taxonomists believe garlic to be endemic to China. Records have indicated that the medicinal respect for garlic was not fully appreciated in regions of India, China, as well as in southern Europe. The summarians had been using garlic for some time before others caught on to its medicinal success.
Hershey is a widely respected brand name and as a fact is the largest producer of quality chocolate in North America and considered as global leader in chocolate and sugar confectionery. With history dating to 18th century, Hershey competes with Nestle and Cadbury to dominate global confectionary business. The main product lines include chocolate and confectionery products; food and beverage enhancers, such as baking ingredients, toppings and beverages; and gum and mint refreshment products. Corporate strategy of Hershey is focused to deliver growth and capitalize by diversifying its brand in the global market.
...rnationally. Their communication technique just seemed to get so many views, and everyone started to try out the Old Spice product.
Our food culture has entered a social environment, making it a part of our identities. This easy spread of information also causes people to see new foods, and it makes them want to try new foods. The expansion of a population’s taste pallet, also leaves us wanting to try more and more new things. This demand for an ever increasing variety has also caused our society to create more types of new foods, or more combinations of existing foods.
Cooking is the art and science of making food for eating by applying heat. Cooking techniques are a set of methods and procedures for making, cooking and presenting food. The origins of cooking are unclear. Early humans may have savoured roast meat by chance, when the flesh of an animal killed in a forest fire was found to be more palatable and easier to chew and digest than the raw meat. Food hadn’t been invented , though until long after they had learned to use fire for light and warmth. It has been analyzed that Peking man roasted meats, but no clear evidence supports this theory. From whenever it began, however, roasting spitted meats over fires remained virtually the sole culinary technique until the Palaeolithic period, when the Aurignacian
...ition of spices into the market during the Middle Ages not only created an economic boom but also led to the change in social, political, and religious outlooks of society. The vast importance of the spice trade opened the doors for nations to expand and create new relationships with neighboring regions, but most importantly it allowed individuals such as Columbus, Da Gama, Polo and other explorers to be able to discover new domains that eventually led to the colonization of the Americas today. Paul Freedman’s book does an excellent job in enlightening the reader of how meaningful spices were throughout the centuries and with the help of numerous primary sources, the message was clear just after reading the first chapter. The book allows us to have a better understanding of the fundamental importance spices played in shifting the medieval times into the modern era.
... many of them are put in salads and meats to give it a spicy or sweet taste. Some of the spices would be Allispice, Anise, Cardamom, and more. Allispice kind of looks like cinnamon when you crunch it up, but its not. What it really is a brown spicy spice that delights your mouth and gives a lot of tastes to your meat. Anise is found in these very nice plants that look like a star. Their color is brown and they are sweet spices that many people like. Cardamom is green and this spice is made using and mortar and pestle and this spice is in many salads they are very sweet and salty if you would say.
The Amazon region is considered the birthplace of the wild cacao tree. T. cacao appeared with the arrival of human species in South American. It have been suggested that T. cacao is the result of a cross between T. pentagona and T. leiocarpa. Cacao was not been selected for its seeds, but instead for the pulp surrounding them. Selection for the seeds begin in Mesoamerica. The seed pulp was used as a beverage. Cacao cultivation by the Indians, notably the Aztecs of Mexico and Mayas in Central America was established before the New World was discovered. The next question would have to be how did the cacao tree cross the sea. Christopher Columbus brought a cacao beans back to Europe from the Gulf of Honduras. This cargo of cacao beans were the first specimens to enter Europe. The Aztecs settled in Mexico two hundred years before Cortes conquest of Mexico.
the European era in Indian history. The lucrative trade in spices of Malabar - in modern Kerala - had tempted
The history of perfume is a reflection of humanity: a means of exchange, a protection against disease, a potion with divine virtues, a gallant message, which reflects society, perceptibly communicating its sense of commerce and medicine, of the sacred and the sensual. The word "perfume" comes from the Latin per fume "through smoke". This refers to the original use of fragrances - the burning of incense and herbs as a religious offering.