Some Like It Hot (Some Like It Hot - hot or "hot") was the title of a great movie where Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon (Geraldine and Josephine) running away from a band of gangsters and end up in Florida in the midst of a thousand guai.
Mi direte: cosa c'entra un film come quello in un blog di cucina ligure-peruana? Niente, ma era un ottimo inizio per parlare di spezie, e quelle, come abbiamo visto qui e qui c'entrano e parecchio con la cucina ligure-peruana (e non solo con quella ovviamente)!
Nel 1999 due antropologi americani, Paul W Sherman e la sua studentessa Jennifer Billing, si sono messi di impegno ed hanno sostenuto scientificamente un approccio di tipo darwiniano al perchè utilizziamo le spezie in cucina, dando alle stampe il risultato dei loro studi in questa pubblicazione scientifica: "Darwinian gastronomy: Why we use spices - Some like it hot" .
Riassunto brevemente, their study shows that use spices because "we do well," especially in terms of preventive-medicine and this is thanks to an evolution, Darwinian fact, the taste of our species.
What the study does not address, however, is all the socio-cultural context in which it has grown this huge global market for spices, relegated to a mere roulette "and use the spices are an advantage" - "I do not use the spices and they are penalized," the development of a cooking spice in the world.
not explain, finally, because in many countries are used spices imported from abroad and vice versa, and as human nature, elevated above the simple cause and effect, have actually taken certain decisions to manage consciously control the movement of spices.
To try to make sense of the spread of spices in the world, we begin a long, long journey, between people mysterious and unknown seas, the spice routes.
The beginning: frankincense and myrrh, cassia and later
In Egypt, the practice of embalming of the bodies is surprisingly old. The bodies began to be embalmed between 2613 and 2494 BC under the pharaohs of the Fourth Dynasty. As early as 5000 BC, however, the bodies were preserved by burial in the hot and dry desert sand. True techniques, which involved the use of substances with antibacterial properties, were used between 1567 and 1200 BC
Myrrh and cassia (Chinese cinnamon) were two of the ointments used for embalming, while the ' incense was burned in Egyptian burial rites.
The mysterious land of Punt, the source of the trade in frankincense, myrrh, and later, but crucial, cassia to Egypt, is expected to be located on the western shores of the Red Sea, in piena Somalia. Di questa regione sono originari gli alberi dell'incenso, mentre più ad est, verso il Corno d'Africa, è originaria la mirra.
Il primo viaggio conosciuto verso questa regione è quello organizzato dal faraone Sahure della quinta dinastia (circa 2550 a.C.). Le sue navi riportarono incenso, mirra, oro, argento, legno prezioso e schiavi da Punt e da molte altre terre ed isole che incontrarono durante il viaggio.
Il faraone Asa (Isesi) seguì l’esempio di Sahure e intorno 2400 a.C. spedì anche lui le sue flotte alla terra di Punt.
I più noti e forse più fruttuosi, fra questi viaggi, sono quelli organizzati dalla regina Hatshepsut (1501-1482 BC) and documented in the reliefs of the temple of Deir-el-Bahari, which she had built at Thebes in honor of Amen-Ra. The expedition's main Hatshepsut consisted of at least five large ships with thirty rowers each. They departed from somewhere in the Red Sea and remained absent for three years.
According to reports on the life of Ramses IV in the Harris papyrus, preserved in the British Library, the pharaoh Ramses III sent an expedition of 10,000 men to Punt in 1180 BC
The last shipment we know, about midway through the second century BC was organized with the help of merchants and bankers of Massilia, modern Marseille.
Cassia, the first tipologia di cannella che arriverà nel Mediterraneo intorno al 2000 a.C., ed anch'essa fondamentale per le procedure di imbalsamazione, proviene invece dal sud della Cina, ma all'epoca era già coltivata in Malesia. Da qui, attraverso un viaggio di 5000 miglia nell'Oceano Indiano su canoe a due galleggianti ed un albero, veniva portata direttamente in Madagascar, per passare nelle mani dei commercianti arabi che l'avrebbero portata più a nord, verso il Mar Rosso e la terra di Punt.
Il grande sviluppo delle tecniche di imbalsamazione aumenta la domanda di spezie: agli originari incenso e mirra, che venivano prodotti nel continente africano, si aggiunge la richiesta di cannella che arriva Malaysia (and later India where he will begin intensive production of cash to meet the growing demand from new markets Egyptians).
Both the incense myrrh have excellent antiseptic properties, and certainly not lower than that of cassia, which will be imported, however, to increase the total volume of ointments applied to Egypt alone are not enough local production of incense and myrrh.
In this way, the East began to look west, starting a profitable export of spices, goods and products first.
But to increase the range of spices exported and stabilize the flow of goods from the East, the new consumers were be prepared to receive them.
A real open markets and enhancing the image of a brand, which will be carried out by two basic elements: the first united India and Greece and the second ... much more tied to a modern marketing action itself.
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Mi direte: cosa c'entra un film come quello in un blog di cucina ligure-peruana? Niente, ma era un ottimo inizio per parlare di spezie, e quelle, come abbiamo visto qui e qui c'entrano e parecchio con la cucina ligure-peruana (e non solo con quella ovviamente)!
Nel 1999 due antropologi americani, Paul W Sherman e la sua studentessa Jennifer Billing, si sono messi di impegno ed hanno sostenuto scientificamente un approccio di tipo darwiniano al perchè utilizziamo le spezie in cucina, dando alle stampe il risultato dei loro studi in questa pubblicazione scientifica: "Darwinian gastronomy: Why we use spices - Some like it hot" .
Riassunto brevemente, their study shows that use spices because "we do well," especially in terms of preventive-medicine and this is thanks to an evolution, Darwinian fact, the taste of our species.
What the study does not address, however, is all the socio-cultural context in which it has grown this huge global market for spices, relegated to a mere roulette "and use the spices are an advantage" - "I do not use the spices and they are penalized," the development of a cooking spice in the world.
not explain, finally, because in many countries are used spices imported from abroad and vice versa, and as human nature, elevated above the simple cause and effect, have actually taken certain decisions to manage consciously control the movement of spices.
To try to make sense of the spread of spices in the world, we begin a long, long journey, between people mysterious and unknown seas, the spice routes.
The beginning: frankincense and myrrh, cassia and later
| Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut had given the order, and they move quickly masters the five large ships to the South, to the legendary land of Punt. The crews did not know it yet, but several months later they would return to Egypt with ships filled with valuable products, precious woods, monkeys with long tails, greyhounds, leopard skins, and, finally, ointments irreplaceable: frankincense, myrrh and cassia . envoys who came to Punt, located in front of him a flat terrain and thickly wooded. conical huts of the inhabitants are made in large quantities. Near them, herds of cows resting quietly in the shade of some trees, and strange birds flying in the sky. The commander of the expedition he came to the village chief, accompanied by family members. Parihu, this is its name, is adorned a large pearl necklace, and wears a long beard and thin, facing up. But their attention is catalyzed by the wife of the headman, Ati. It 's a huge woman, obese, excessive, with rolls of flesh on the arms and body, and carries two lines tattooed on the cheeks from the corners of the mouth to nearly the ears. Parihu, visibly surprised, asks the leader of the expedition: "How did you come to this land unknown to the people of Egypt? From the street of the sky or do you have sailed the sea for Ta-Nuter? You must have followed the path of the sun . As for the King of Egypt, there are no roads that are inaccessible to His Majesty; we live the air that he gives us. " The head of the Egyptian expedition led calls for the gifts to the prince of Punt: beads, necklaces, bracelets, ceremonial dagger and ax. Parihu as a sign of gratitude and homage to the Egyptian queen, order to accumulate the best products of their land near the ships. are thus brought incense trees, sycamore trees to extract the resinous myrrh, cassia bags, logs of ebony, monkeys, giraffes, pure ivory, gold and agates. |
In Egypt, the practice of embalming of the bodies is surprisingly old. The bodies began to be embalmed between 2613 and 2494 BC under the pharaohs of the Fourth Dynasty. As early as 5000 BC, however, the bodies were preserved by burial in the hot and dry desert sand. True techniques, which involved the use of substances with antibacterial properties, were used between 1567 and 1200 BC Myrrh and cassia (Chinese cinnamon) were two of the ointments used for embalming, while the ' incense was burned in Egyptian burial rites.
The mysterious land of Punt, the source of the trade in frankincense, myrrh, and later, but crucial, cassia to Egypt, is expected to be located on the western shores of the Red Sea, in piena Somalia. Di questa regione sono originari gli alberi dell'incenso, mentre più ad est, verso il Corno d'Africa, è originaria la mirra. Il primo viaggio conosciuto verso questa regione è quello organizzato dal faraone Sahure della quinta dinastia (circa 2550 a.C.). Le sue navi riportarono incenso, mirra, oro, argento, legno prezioso e schiavi da Punt e da molte altre terre ed isole che incontrarono durante il viaggio.
Il faraone Asa (Isesi) seguì l’esempio di Sahure e intorno 2400 a.C. spedì anche lui le sue flotte alla terra di Punt. I più noti e forse più fruttuosi, fra questi viaggi, sono quelli organizzati dalla regina Hatshepsut (1501-1482 BC) and documented in the reliefs of the temple of Deir-el-Bahari, which she had built at Thebes in honor of Amen-Ra. The expedition's main Hatshepsut consisted of at least five large ships with thirty rowers each. They departed from somewhere in the Red Sea and remained absent for three years.
According to reports on the life of Ramses IV in the Harris papyrus, preserved in the British Library, the pharaoh Ramses III sent an expedition of 10,000 men to Punt in 1180 BC
The last shipment we know, about midway through the second century BC was organized with the help of merchants and bankers of Massilia, modern Marseille.
Cassia, the first tipologia di cannella che arriverà nel Mediterraneo intorno al 2000 a.C., ed anch'essa fondamentale per le procedure di imbalsamazione, proviene invece dal sud della Cina, ma all'epoca era già coltivata in Malesia. Da qui, attraverso un viaggio di 5000 miglia nell'Oceano Indiano su canoe a due galleggianti ed un albero, veniva portata direttamente in Madagascar, per passare nelle mani dei commercianti arabi che l'avrebbero portata più a nord, verso il Mar Rosso e la terra di Punt. 
Il grande sviluppo delle tecniche di imbalsamazione aumenta la domanda di spezie: agli originari incenso e mirra, che venivano prodotti nel continente africano, si aggiunge la richiesta di cannella che arriva Malaysia (and later India where he will begin intensive production of cash to meet the growing demand from new markets Egyptians). 
Both the incense myrrh have excellent antiseptic properties, and certainly not lower than that of cassia, which will be imported, however, to increase the total volume of ointments applied to Egypt alone are not enough local production of incense and myrrh. In this way, the East began to look west, starting a profitable export of spices, goods and products first.
But to increase the range of spices exported and stabilize the flow of goods from the East, the new consumers were be prepared to receive them.
A real open markets and enhancing the image of a brand, which will be carried out by two basic elements: the first united India and Greece and the second ... much more tied to a modern marketing action itself.
- CONTINUED -
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