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May 2022

48m 43s

Spices, Their Histories, Part 1

About this episode

Let's take a sleepy tour of the spice cabinet and the origins of allspice, chilies, cinnamon, and cloves, with a pinch of insight into faking spices with brick dust. Useful!

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