Description

Turmeric, curcuma longabelongs to the ginger family & is an ancient spice that was used over ***0 years ago in vediccooking & religious rituals. Native to the tropical parts of south east asia, it’s used today for dying cloth (eg.  hinduholy robes) and as a spice. It’s produced in china and surrounds, australia, sri lanka, java, the west indies and peru where the roots (rhizomes) are boiled for hours on end,  dried in ovens and ground into a deep orange-yellow powder more often used in spicy asian and middle eastern foods like curries & even desserts.