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[UnruhBays, Melanie A]

> Or did you mean "'Grains of paradise' has been used to describe 
> cardamom seeds by the authors of bad modern secondary sources on 
> medieval cooking?"

Actually, 'grains of paradise' has been described as cardomom by a bad
secondary source on herbs and herbalism, relying on information from 19th
century spice industry. (That is, _Spices and Herbs, Lore and Cookery_, by
Elizabeth Hayes. _NOT_ a good source.) 

I went chasing this at one point... I'll see if I can duplicate my tracks.
Because I came to the conclusion that the conflating of grains of paradise
and cardamom was actually semi-modern instead of period...

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