Spices

Spices are flavors and they are also medicine: the leaves and seeds and roots and flowers are what are meant to heal us. In Ayurveda we are drinking medicated water, getting bathed in medicated oils, drinking teas and eating yummy food loaded with spices.

Right here oat Sreedhari i see the ladies scouting around and picking various things.

I love the NUTMEGS that fall from the trees when they are ready. The brillint red web of the mace around the nutmeg seed screams “here i am”.  Im bringing some of those home.

BLACK PEPPER
Never knew what an unripened black pepper looked like until now. India was colonized many hundreds of years ago for stuff like pepper and cardamon, nutmeg and silk. Kerala was and still is the heart of the spice and herb trade. I have also seen Rubber trees and of course bananas and papayas and certainly dont know about a lot of the wondrous stuff.