SC - Spices?
Marian Deborah Rosenberg
Marian.Deborah.Rosenberg at washcoll.edu
Sat Apr 29 22:24:28 PDT 2000
Greetings,
I've found something odd that perhaps the list can explain to me. From page
142 "Women, Production and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities" by Martha Howell
...
There is a table of "approximate wholesale values of leading spices inmported
into Cologne 1452-59"
with prices
Ingwer, pfeffer, melzzucker, brotzucker, kassuyn, lorbeer, kummel, zimt,
muskat, muskatbluten, reis, safran, datteln, nelken, mandeln
or
Ginger, pepper, sugar, sugar, sugar, bay, caraway, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace,
*rice*, saffron, dates, cloves, almonds.
Since when was rice become a spice?
- -M
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