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Cloves to mull, mask and numb
| Helen Babbs
Sweet, pungent, warm, woody: cloves smell and taste like Christmas. But there’s much more to this spice than that.
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- In pictures
Deadly stinks and life-saving aromas in plague-stricken London
| Amelia Soth
In the plague-ravaged London of 1665, could perfume really save your life?
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There’s more to gingerbread than ginger
| Mary-Anne Boermans
‘Bake-Off’ finalist Mary-Anne Boermans treats us to the warm and enticing pleasures of gingerbread over centuries.
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Getting sexy with cinnamon
| Kirsten Riley
Add some flavour to your love life with this spice. It will warm up more than just your buns.
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Getting the measure of pain
| Jaipreet VirdiAnne Howeson
In the 20th century doctors tried to find a way to measure pain. But even when ‘objective’ measures were rejected, an accurate understanding of another’s pain remained frustratingly elusive.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
| Sita Reddy
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.