Ancient Cuisine

According to the McCormick Science Institute papers, the most significant role of herbs was in healing, followed by food. Numerous references to the high cost of imported spices, especially those from outside the Mediterranean region, appear in Greek, Roman, Egyptian,...
Saffron- Botany And Medicine

Saffron- Botany And Medicine

Saffron medicinal properties have been extensively studied. Crocus sativus (saffron) is a small flowering herb that is 15 to 30 centimeters tall and distributed across central Asia, Iran, the Mediterranean, Europe, Asia (largely Kashmir and Afghanistan), northern...

Saffron’s Historical review

Safron’s historical review throws up fascinating results. The herb is perhaps the most expensive and ancient incense known to man. Saffron-based pigments were probably used to make stencil prints on caves by the earliest cave inhabitants about 30000 BC. But the...
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