SPICE GOLD NO FURTHER A MYSTERY

Herbs and spices have been enormously prized over the ʿAbbāsid Caliphate (ce 750–1258), and, during the capital city of Baghdad, sumptuous banquets hosted from the caliph were being organized with herbs and spices to attain flavours for example sweet, bitter, fragrant, and pungent. In ce 812 Charlemagne issued a decree listing many of the herbs