In a message dated 3/5/2000 1:40:54 PM US Mountain Standard Time, winterstar4 at hotmail.com writes: << What is paradise and cubebs? >> Grains of Paradise and Cubebs are spices common in Medieval Cookery, but not in American cooking. They can be found at good spice merchants, however. Mordonna the Cook, SunDragon's Western Reaches Atenveldt (m.k.a. Buckeye, AZ)