The article seems to ignore the fact that people eat what grows locally.
So, India grows a lot of spices, hence the food has those as ingredients.
Norway doesn’t, so food is bland.
That’s my theory anyway..
So, India grows a lot of spices, hence the food has those as ingredients.
Norway doesn’t, so food is bland.
That’s my theory anyway..
Some notes:
1) The results depend on how we define spice. Many European countries use cheese to add interesting flavors to the food. Other parts of the world are more lactose intolerant and probably use spices where the west would simply use some type of cheese. A lot of berries dried or fresh could also play that role. Black currants could be easily included among spices for this purpose.
3) As a general rule, the poorest the diet, the more spices will include. If you basically eat rice each day, you will crave for something able to add a different taste each day
4) Places with more biodiversity have more choices. Small forests in Tropical areas have twenty times more tree species that entire countries in Europe so the number of possible sources of flavor is much higher.
I thought this was well-defined. Herbs & spices come from plants. An herb is the leaf of the plant, and a spice is any non-leaf part of the plant.
Am I mistaken?
I thought the ambiguity was the difference between "spicy" and "spiced", where people often use "spicy" to mean "hot", and "spiced" to mean "contains spices", but not necessarily hot.
Now that I'm aware that others find ambiguity, I have nothing I can say about it because this is new information to me. I suppose it's up to them to define it!
Cheese is a way to store excess milk