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- Article
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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- Article
Indian botanicals and heritage wars
| Sita Reddy
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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- Article
Chillies and the trouble with Scoville
| Danny Birchall
Measuring the heat of these peppers can leave you a little lukewarm.
- Book extract
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
| Aarathi Prasad
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.