Spirit Food – Parsley
ORIGIN Parsley is the most mentioned herb in the world. It is thought to have originated somewhere in the Mediterranean region. Parsley has traditionally been used in the Mediterranean region […]
Spirit Foods
Spirit Food – Kidney Beans
ORIGIN Kidney beans originated in South and Central America as a result of migrating Indian traders who brought kidney beans with them from Peru. These beans were introduced into Europe
Spirit Food – Broccoli
ORIGIN Broccoli is essentially a large edible flower. Broccoli is a human invention. It was carefully bred by Italian farmers more than 2,000 years ago out of the wild cabbage
Spirit Food – Orange
ORIGIN Have you ever wondered which came first? The fruit or the colour? The colour was named after the fruit. The earliest recorded use of the word orange was used in the
Spirit Food – Mushroom
ORIGIN Although mushrooms are often considered a vegetable, they are actually fungi that grow above the ground. They were most likely cultivated for the first time around 600AD in Asia.
Spirit Food – Cabbage
ORIGIN In the East, cabbage was used since the 4,000 BC and was cultivated in North China. The Greeks called cabbage “krambe” while the Romans called it “brassica”. Legends say
Spirit Food – Ginger
ORIGIN Ginger originated from the southern parts of ancient China. It gained popularity through India and the Middle East. In the 1st century, it made its way to Europe when
Spirit Food – Cacao
ORIGIN Cacao dates back to at least 3000 years to the time of the Olmec civilisation that lived in now south-central Mexico. The Mayans followed the Olmecs, who focused their
Spirit Food – Raspberry
ORIGIN The scientific name for red raspberries, Rubus idaeus, means literally “bramble bush of Ida”, named both for the nursemaid of the Greek God Zeus and the mountain where they grew
Spirit Food – Melon
ORIGIN The other names of this fruit include musk melon, rockmelon, sweet melon. It originates from in Africa, Iran, and India and is grown all over North America and Europe