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A tiny museum of empires fought over things you forgot you owned.
means A small shelf, rack, or holder designed to organize and store jars of culinary spices and seasonings.
from A plain compound of "spice" and "rack." "Spice" came into English from Old French "espice," itself from Latin "species" — which meant "kind" or "sort," and came to mean goods or wares of a particular kind, especially the costly aromatics traded from the East. "Rack" is older Germanic stock, related to words meaning "to stretch" or "frame," and long used for any frame that holds things. The pairing is modern and unremarkable as language — but the word "species" quietly records an age when pepper and cinnamon were precious enough to be worth a sea voyage and a war.
- war fuel
- Nutmeg once cost more than gold by weight
- shelf life
- Ground spices quietly go flat after a year
- trade routes
- Pepper financed entire fleets and brutal colonial conquests
- home secret
- Most cooks use five jars, hoard twenty
- origin
- Cinnamon traders hid sources to inflate prices for centuries
mccormick spice rack — best-selling branded spice rack in us supermarkets, has rotating carousel design
penzey's spice house — wisconsin-based specialty spice retailer with 60+ locations, founded 1957