HERB - A Modern Herbal
Rauthulfr
mwolfe at nwlink.com
Tue Mar 21 10:58:02 PST 2000
By the time of the Renaissance there were three different spices identified
as grains of paradise. One was paprika, another was cardamom, and the
other was grana paradisi. Grieve was always pretty good about giving her
plants their various popular names. The challenge was that she often
failed to give all the popular names which were available. Actually the
situation has become even more complex since botanists have begun playing
with taxonomy. We've come to the point that even the Scientific names come
in several varieties.
As always the key with using any herbal as a reference, is to cross check
with at least a couple of others!
YIS
Rauthulfr
At 01:20 PM 3/21/00 -0500, you wrote:
> > Sometimes one finds things by accident - I found paprika as Hungarian
> > pepper, and she said another name for it was grains of paradise...
>
>Those kinds of mistakes (grains of paradise are an african berry-- paprika
>is dried flesh of the red North American pepper fruit) are why I don't use
>Grieves.
RauthulfR Meistari inn Orthstori (OL, mCE, P-eX, Et Cetera)
or, non-SCA: Michael Wolfe M. A. I. S. AB-
*Practice Random Acts of Chocolate.....
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