[Sca-cooks] grains of paradise

Dragon dragon at crimson-dragon.com
Fri Aug 8 08:33:28 PDT 2008


Nick Sasso wrote:


>-----Original Message-----
>Ian Kusz wrote:
>
> >Okay, dumb question.  What are grains of paradise, where are they from,
>what
> >food do they feature in, what do they taste like (so I can figure out what
> >complements them),
> >
>The seeds of Aframomum melegueta, West Africa, lots of things in
>14th-century books, peppery and slightly resinous.
>
>
> >and how much is necessary for a dish?
> >
>
>
>Alas, the answer is "til it be enough"
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Grains of paradise are also referred to as Melegueta pepper, 
alligator pepper, Guinea pepper or Guinea grains.

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aframomum_melegueta

And:
http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/Afra_mel.html

Dragon

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