Every Spice Explained

Every Spice Explained 🌶️ This video walks fourteen spices — black pepper that financed the Age of Exploration, saffron worth more per gram than gold, vanilla orchid (the world's only fruit-bearing orchid), Ceylon cinnamon, nutmeg and mace from the Banda Islands, cardamom, cloves, sumac, star anise, Sichuan peppercorn (numbing, not heat), fenugreek, asafoetida, long pepper Rome traded for, and grains of paradise. Origin, chemistry, trade history, and the surprises behind every name. Subscribe for more food explained.