SC - Cinnamon

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

hey all from Anne-Marie
You can find both cinnamon and cassia, as well as cassia buds ("fleur de
cassis" from Taillevent, maybe? :)) at Worldspice.
Check out their website....www.worldspice.com.

If you're in An Tir, I can bring some to 12th night....

- --AM, who's very spoiled to work two blocks from the place...

At 11:31 AM 12/16/99 -0600, you wrote:
>At 10:26 AM -0700 12/16/99, Schumacher, Deborah (AZ15) wrote:
>>Does anyone know the difference between chinese cinnamon and plain cinnamon?
>>A recipe i have calls for both..
>
>
>"Cinnamon" was and is used for the bark of several related trees. I'm 
>not sure we know which cinnamons the Andalusian cookbook means by the 
>two terms it uses. The usual cinnamon in America is actually Cassia. 
>There is, I think, a Cinnamonium Chinensis (Chinese cinnamon), and 
>(as I recall) what modern cooks refer to as "real" cinnamon is c. 
>Zeylonicum (Ceylon cinnamon).
>
>There was a discussion on this some time back, and someone else may 
>be able to give you a more precise summary of the conclusions.
>
>David/Cariadoc
>http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
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