Move over Spice Girls Ill tell you what we really, really want in our food

Attention.Special events are approaching.

It’s feasts.Foods.Father’s Day, graduations, vacations, weddings, Juneteenth, July 4, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, maybe grandma’s birthday in between.Forget your calendar.

Consider your stomach.Today it’s a tutorial on your spices.Pepper.

King of spices.Prized during the Middle Ages.

Birthplaces were Genoa, Alexandria, Venice which owed them their prosperity.Today pepper encompasses the globe with US, Japan, Korea the biggest consumers.

Main producing countries are Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Malaysia, Sri Lanka.Black, dried, from flowering vine Piperaceae, its pungency comes from the piperine compound — whatever that is.A home remedy that supposedly helps cure constipation, diarrhea, indigestion and insect bites.

However, it cannot help with City Hall.Clove.From dried flower buds off the tree Myrtaceae.

This thing does not grow in Brooklyn.The name’s derived from Latin.

I tried saying it to my Yorky.Didn’t help.

Damn dog still didn’t stop barking.Whatever the stuff is it’s big in Asia, Africa, Middle East and often combined with apples, pears, rhubarb.

Nice stuck inside pumpkin pie.Cinnamon.From the inner bark of trees.

The stuff got to Egypt by 2000 BC when the Bible says Moses used it in the holy anointing oil.If not Moses then maybe Jane Fonda. De Blasio probably had it in a City Hall drawer.Cardamom.

Supposedly it’s our most expensive fruit.A German planted it in Guatemala before World War I.

How we got it, who knows.I’m glad I know this much.

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