WHAT ARE SPICES?

In the culinary arts, the word spice refers to any dried part of a plant other than the leaves, used for seasoning and flavoring a recipe. Every other part of the plant , including dried bark, roots, berries, seeds, twigs, or anything else that isn't the green leafy part. Examples -Cinnamom is the bark of a tree. Cardamom is a seed pod. Allspice is a dried berry. Cloves are dried flower buds.