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 Spices By Marduk
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Welcome to Spices By Marduk
A wonderful mix of spices from throughout the Empire as well as beyond its borders will be for sale here.
And if you want to take home your very own Spices By Marduk plaque just copy the image number below
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A Short History On Roman Spices
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An elite, wealthy Roman family would have used a wide-variety of spices at the meal table, but the Roman spice of choice was pepper. It was found in many Roman households.
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Rome and India were willing trade partners and Romans craved such Indian spices as cardamom, cassia, cinnamon, cloves, costum, folium, ginger, Indian nard, malabathrum, nutmeg, pepper, and sesame.
Zeke the Dragon, is always on the lookout for those who are eyeing up a freebie. Beware of Zeke....
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The Menu
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Levisticum officinale: A spice made from the dried roots of a yellow-flowering plant. Also known as Liebstoeckl.
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Poleiminze: A spice that was very close to mint. When cooking ancient Roman dishes in a modern setting, mint of today is used instead of Poleiminze.
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Satureia hortensis: The bean herb, it is known as Saturei. The spice comes from a violet or white flowered type of plant that grows mainly in Southern Europe.
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Silphium: Also known as Silphion, Laser, or ferula asa foetida. The spice comes from North Africa and the various cities [Carthage,etc.] that controlled the spice trade in the region grew wealthy off exporting silphium. It has a very strong taste and smell. Senex has provided a wonderful link on Silphium here: Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages ~ Silphion
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Created by: * Marduk Hammurabi, Apr 8, 2007 - 16:32
prevention (* Tiburinus Scriptor, Oct 9, 2008 - 15:34 )
Spicy (* Octavia Augustulus, Oct 31, 2007 - 22:45 )
Rue (* Senex Caecilius, Aug 11, 2007 - 00:55 )
Ginger (* Senex Caecilius, Apr 9, 2007 - 23:47 )
Just reading the posts ... (* Balbas Scriptor, Apr 9, 2007 - 01:19 )
Spices By Marduk Plaques Are Here! (* Marduk Hammurabi, Apr 9, 2007 - 01:03 )
Indian Products in Roman Cuisine (* Senex Caecilius, Apr 9, 2007 - 00:32 )
Myrtle berries (* Senex Caecilius, Apr 9, 2007 - 00:14 )
Silphium (* Senex Caecilius, Apr 8, 2007 - 16:52 )
