[Sca-cooks] Grains of Paradise
Lilinah
lilinah at earthlink.net
Wed Dec 20 12:08:33 PST 2006
On another SCA cooking list, someone posted:
>thanks to the (US) boycott on Sumatra, we can't get grains of
>paradise through "normal" channels... which is a shame...
Has anyone else heard of this?
Is anyone else having trouble getting grains of paradise?
It sounds strange to me because Sumatra isn't a country. Sumatra is
the sixth largest island in the world, and just one island of many in
the archipelago-country of Indonesia. Sumatra has ten
provinces/administrative regions, including a number of small islands
along its southwestern and northeastern coasts.
True, the province of Aceh (more-or-less pronounced "ah-chay"), on
the northernmost tip, has potentially dangerous Muslim
fundamentalists, but i'm don't see that as a reason to boycott the
whole huge island.
Plus, i often buy Sumatran coffee and there has been no increase in
its price, nor has it become unavailable.
Also, this makes me curious as to where most of the commercial crop
of grains of paradise is grown. Grains of paradise is native to
Africa, but i know that many spices are now grown far from their
points of origin.
I haven't been able to find anything about it in a Google search, but
maybe i was using the wrong search parameters.
Help!
--
Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita
More information about the Sca-cooks
mailing list