THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO K2

Herbs and spices had been enormously prized in the course of the ʿAbbāsid Caliphate (ce 750–1258), and, inside the cash city of Baghdad, sumptuous banquets hosted by the caliph ended up prepared with herbs and spices to realize flavours such as sweet, sour, fragrant, and pungent. In ce 812 Charlemagne issued a decree listing the many herbs alon