Spices for a healthy Cooking

Ceylon Spices 

Asia, most specifically Southeast Asia, has always been quite famous for its spicy foods. The region’s cooks have dabbled with the science of spices for millennia and are very experienced and used to cooking using spices. The fact that most spices are grown around the tropical regions of Southeast Asia played a large part in this. Sri Lanka, the pearl of the Indian Ocean, has been the centre of the spice trade throughout history. 

•      Spice-related Historical Facts about Sri Lanka

1. Sri Lanka, historically renowned under names such as Taprobane, Serendib and Ceylon, was famous for its high-quality spices throughout history.
2. In ancient times it maintained relations with the Greeks, Romans, and Arabs through its spice trade
3. Old 14th-century trade route maps of the world have proved that almost all trade routes passed through Sri Lanka. The main reasons for this popularity were the spices and ivory found in the tropical island.
4. The Portuguese, Dutch and English found the country attractive, when they conquered Asia, mainly due its spice and ivory trade.
5. Tropical Sri Lanka with its diverse micro climates and soil types has many spices grown in the island, some of them endemic, which has been the cause for their lucrative spice trade throughout the ages.