Kalpasi-the mysterious stone flower What is Kalpasi? Kalpasi is one of the most unusual edible dried lichen flora (a type of fungus) which is very soft brown and black in color and has mild woody fragrance that usually grows on trees or rocks in running water streams or rivers in

A Tale of Two Spices: Nutmeg and Mace Where does mace & nutmeg come from? nutmeg and mace are actually a siblings. These two are obtained from the same fruit of the nutmeg tree called Myristica frangrans. The nutmeg is actually a fruit with a single seed(which makes it a drupe) is the oval-shaped pit, whereas

A complete detail of Mustard seed Mustard seeds (सरसों के बीज) are the small round seeds of fruit pods mainly obtain from several spices of mustard plants in the Brassica family. Mustard seeds are basically the small round seeds of three different plants: black mustard, brown Indian mustard, and white mustard. The seeds are usually about 1 to

Indian Long Pepper (Peepli): A Rejuvenating Spice that hardly heard of. What is Indian Long Pepper? Indian long pepper or pipli in hindi is a dried unripe fruit of a piper lognum (flowering vine)of a climbing perennial plant that can be found in the hottest regions of India as well

Peppercorn:- King of Spices Black pepper is the most important and most widely used spice in the world and it shares a place on most dinner tables with salt. Pepper is valued for its pungency contributed by the alkaloid piperine and flavor contributed by the volatile oil.  The word pepper originated from the Sanskrit