If they could see us now
Pretty much every voyage in the Age of Exploration was financed by royalty demanding better-tasting food.1
I'm not saying that Portugal wouldn't have found India by now, but Europeans tired of lackluster food were glad navigator Vasco Da Gama came along when he did. Same thing for China and Marco Polo. And Indonesia and Ferdinand Magellan.
Anyway, many good men died in search of something to improve the crappy food of the day.
If only they could see what life is like now.
Wisconsin-based Penzeys Spices has opened a D.C.-area trading post on Rockville Pike.
All the spices of the world.
Right there in little canisters selling for $1.49.
And the aisles are not even very crowded.
1They demanded other stuff too, of course, like silk, slaves and religious converts.
4 comments:
I'm pretty sure the spices were actually to mask the not-so-bland taste of slowly spoiling food.
Good point. Explorers didn't find General Electric's freezer production plant until centuries later.
Please: a moment of silence for the men who died discovering Kosher Salt.
Done. Next, I'd like to call for a moment of silence for the folks who died in pursuit of bringing the world cayenne pepper, named after the capital of French Guiana.
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