cinnamon
September 13, 2011 - Category: Spice of the Month
Cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia, Cinnamomum zeylanicum), believed to have come originally from Sri Lanka, is the dried, fragrant bark of the cinnamon tree.In the ancient world, cinnamon was more precious than gold - not too surprising though, as in Egypt gold was abundant and, thus, a fairly common ornamental metal.Nero, emperor of Rome in the first…Spice of the Month: Cinnamon
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