HLTH 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Embalming, Wasabi, Parsley

• School: Emory University
• Department: Human Health Program
• Course: HLTH 340
• Professor: Quave

Document Summary

List some spices from the mediterranean, india, and from the americas. Know the relationship between the spice trade and the european renaissance. Know the effects of the trade of nutmeg on european culture and for the culture of the banda islands. Smell is 80% of what we taste. Certain smells and tastes are particular to different culture because of the plants they use in their cuisine. Either locally grown or harvested or acquired through trade routes. The difference between spice and food plants. Spices contain marked organoleptic qualities that signal the presence of allelochemicals. Such allelochemicals have been bred out of many cultivated food plants via. Organoleptic : acting on or involving the use of the sense organs agricultural shifts but retained in spice plants, which are valued for their distinctive flavors and scents. Ex: compare a spice like chili pepper to a food crop like potato. Potato is eaten in larger quantities as energy source.