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Professional Infos - Spices and Seasonings


Glutamate

Taste enhancers: A quality slice-of-life By definition, taste enhancers are substances which, without becoming taste-evident themselves, intensify all taste patterns within a given product, thereby contributing to an increase in the eating pleasure such products offer when... 

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Garlic

History and Anecdotal Past From Asia, and via Egypt, garlic made its way to Europe almost 5,000 years ago. In antique Egypt, it was cultivated in large quantities and exported to other countries. But it was up to the Romans to really spread this spice across Europe-and to also... 

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Sweet Pepper / Paprika

  Brief history and anecdotal past It was Christopher Columbus who brought the first seedlings of the paprika fruit-bearing sweetbell redpepper plant, called "Indian Pepper" at the time, to Europe. At first grown in royal gardens and admired as an exotic ornamental, the plants... 

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Little Spice Lore

Interesting facts about the world's most important spices
Want to know more about all those spices? Then simply ask for this little brochure. 

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