Cinnamon the “Spice of the Kings”
It was recorded that in the ancient Egypt cinnamon is considered a “gift fit for kings”. This status continued for a over the millennia and even today the “True Cinnamon” is a gift fit for kings. The reason for this consideration is not only for the natural aroma, the taste and the medicinal properties of cinnamon but also the rarity of the spice that made it so valuable. Best natural cinnamon, with its cousin, “The King of the Spices – Pepper” is grown in the island of Sri Lanka. Cinnamon was traded in the world thousand of years a go. Both cinnamon and pepper was of such value the ancient merchants from the Arab world went to great extent to hide the true source of cinnamon. At the sale time, Ptolemy that commissioned the first map of the world considered Sri Lanka ( the source of these wonderful spices) as…