ginger

Vegetarian Times | November 1, 2005| | Copyright

The spice that's naughty and nice

Love the rich flavor of holiday gingerbread or the crisp tang of ginger ale? Your fondness for these foods may be more than just a flavor preference: Long before ginger added zing to baked goods or fizz to soft drinks, it was used as an aphrodisiac. In ancient China (where ginger was first cultivated), the spice was prescribed to lift libido and boost virility. Ginger's romantic reputation spread to Greece and Rome, where physicians prescribed it to "awake young love again," according to ninth century Italian medical texts. Muslims, too, drank ginger water to ...

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