Marie Jon
History at the Table
B1a
M, till forever
Confusing
Cinnamon
(Who
can get it right?)
There
are many reasons why I shouldn’t write a paragraph about where cinnamon comes
from. Cinnamon comes from so many places, and there are so many different
types, not to mention two cinnamons that are used almost interchangeably. All these
make this topic confusing and not very good for which to use for a topic for a
paragraph. As I have said, there are too many places from where it has roots
and come from. It comes from Arabia, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, north of India, China,
and Egypt. Not to mention all the countries that came in contact with these
countries and started to trade and replant cinnamon in other countries. Also
there are several different types of cinnamon that people get confused with each
other all the time. There are 4 basic cinnamon trees that other cinnamon tree species
branched off of. They are Cassia (Hebrew קציעה qəṣi`â), the bark of Cinnamomum
iners from Arabia and Ethiopia, and literally means 'the peel of the plant' which
is scraped off the tree; true Cinnamon (Hebrew קִנָּמוֹן qinnamon), the bark of
C. verum (also called C. zeylanicum) from Sri Lanka; Malabathrum or Malobathrum
(from Sanskrit तमालपत्रम्, tamālapattram,
literally "dark-tree leaves"), several species including C. tamala
from the north of India; Serichatum, C. cassia from Seres, that is, China. In addition
to all this, there is Cinnamomum verum which is sometimes called "true
cinnamon", most cinnamon that we get from international commerce comes from
a related species, which is also referred to as "cassia" so people
can tell the difference between it and "true cinnamon". All of this
makes this topic very confusing and not at all a paragraph that should be
written on.
References
Wikipedia. Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia. various sponsers, 7 Feb. 2013. Web. 11 Feb. 2013.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon>.
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