From Sacred Medicine to Modern Wellness: The History of Spices and the Return to Food as Medicine
Before They Were “Flavor,” They Were Medicine Long before grocery aisles and shaker bottles, spices were sacred. Turmeric stained the robes of monks and soothed inflamed joints in ancient India. True cinnamon was burned in Egyptian temples and used in embalming rituals, worth more than gold. Clove numbed toothaches in...