The Mysterious History of Cinnamon
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Published 2021-10-01
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All Comments (21)
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Just want to reiterate I meant to say "cinnamologus", not "cinnamogolus'.
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I would absolutely love to see an ancient man's face at the amount of cinnamon I put in a cup of hot chocolate...
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He who controls the spice, controls the universe.
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I lived in this big house with a small Cinnamon tree in front of it. The smell is very strong and can spread throughout the entire street. In fact, not only the trunk but the leaves and berries smell strong too
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Sri Lanka was called Ceylon, and before that, Serendip. European traders considered the sight of the island as an unexpected and fortunate thing, hence our word 'serendipity.
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I knew a guy who told me that he heard cinnamon reduces blood sugar, so he was eating cinnamon doughnuts to reduce his blood sugar. No joke.
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Mummy have cinnamon in them? I guess that makes them a cinnamon roll
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How the first person came to harvest and consume cinnamon would probably be the story of a lunatic. It’s fascinating how so many ancient things we take for granted have such a crazy history. Great video, very interesting.
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Is it just me, or does the Cinnamogalus sound like the coolest cereal mascot ever?
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What I'm hearing here is ground cinnamon is really just sawdust. Pleasant tasting sawdust. I love it. I enjoyed the video and am excited to watch more!
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imagine meeting someone in the afterlife to learn of their untimely early death and ask what happened and they say “I sold some bootleg cinnamon and they executed me.” lol
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I only ingest cinnamon in its unparalleled form... toast crunch
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In India, cardamom is the spice that is mostly used in sweets and associated with sweets/ sweet drinks like cardamom milk, lassi, chai etc. Cinnamon is mostly used to spice up savory dishes and stews, kormas, etc. Cardamom is also used for savory dishes.
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Learning about the history of food makes you appreciate it more and it even tastes better when you think of all that hard work that went into it before consuming
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When I visited Sri Lanka I toured what they called a medicinal garden. In it they had lots of spice plants. It was the first I had even thought about where certain spices came from. I saw my first cinnamon tree there. Also the tree that cloves come from, the turmeric plant and many other spices we are familiar with.
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I have the true cinnamon growing in my yard. Just as folk use the bay leaf in cooking the fresh or dried cinnamon leaves work very well also without cutting down the tree.
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I wonder who looked at a tree and was like "I'm gonna scrape that bark and sell it"
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Wow I never knew cinnamon had such fascinating history
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As I found from my own reading of Herodatus, the Greco-Romans considered part of India to be inhabited by a form of Ethiopians. Therefore, it's possible they knew the origins of cinnamon then. (book 3.94)
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"Growing and mass producing cinnamon in Europe itself was not feasible." pans over snow covered trees 🤣😂
