Spices and perfumes – driving forces of humans
Spices and perfumes – driving forces of humans Spices and perfumes – driving forces of humans
Discovery of resins as preservatives of meat (volatiles + solids in some resins repel insects, fungi, bacteria) leads Egyptian priests (!!!) to invent ….mummification?? Highly profitable, blame it on Anubis!
Spices– one of the secret driving forces of history Pliny complained that Romans spent too much gold on spices. Modern people use 1 kg spice per year. Geopolitical events like the Mongol expansion into China & Arabia interrupted the old trade routes and started a rediscovery of the world by the European powers. See routes to India, China, Japan, America, Australia and Antarctica, 408 the Visigoths under Alaric I for the first time in almost 800 years laid siege to Rome. The Senate negotiated a deal 5,000 pounds of gold, 30,000 pounds of silver, & 100 sacs of pepper
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- Page 5 and 6: Spices like all herbs have mythical
- Page 7 and 8: What are spices?
- Page 9 and 10: Silphion -extinct aphrodisiac & spi
- Page 11 and 12: Asafoetida - the ersatz Silphium of
- Page 13 and 14: Spices acting like herbs: Cayenne p
- Page 15 and 16: Are you a masochist? Bitterness is
- Page 17 and 18: Piper nigrum Spices acting like her
- Page 19 and 20: Allium sativum Spices acting like h
- Page 21 and 22: Sulfides, e.g. garlic Allium sativu
- Page 23 and 24: Mustard, Cabbages, Crucifers, Brass
- Page 25 and 26: Flavor of sulfur compounds glucosin
- Page 27 and 28: Saffron, has for decades been the w
- Page 29 and 30: Phenols as flavors 4% of the beans
- Page 31 and 32: Spices and perfumes - Apiacea or ca
- Page 33 and 34: Celery The use of celery seed in pi
- Page 35 and 36: French Men! Eating truffles can mak
- Page 37 and 38: Sensations - bitterness Bitterness
- Page 39 and 40: Quinine - a bitter but fluorescing
- Page 41 and 42: A new taste sensation u …mami
- Page 43 and 44: Flavour - phytochemcials with speci
- Page 45 and 46: Task : Testing the role of olfactor
- Page 47 and 48: When you grate lemon or orange peel
- Page 49 and 50: How does it work, e.g. “ to fall
Discovery <strong>of</strong> resins as preservatives <strong>of</strong> meat<br />
(volatiles + solids in some resins repel insects, fungi,<br />
bacteria) leads Egyptian priests (!!!) to invent<br />
….mummification?? Highly pr<strong>of</strong>itable, blame it on<br />
Anubis!
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