Tag: Spices

The Disturbing Colonial History of Pumpkin Spice

Pumpkin spice is typically a blend of nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves. The first known mention of the blend dates to The Compleat Cook, a 1671 English cookbook that likely inspired America’s early pumpkin recipes. In its recipes for “Pompkin pie,” the book calls for “Cinamo...

10 Mind-Altering Spices.

Patients would take around a tenth of the amount it takes to become hallucinogenic with doses carefully managed by a trained psychiatrist. People with a family history of psychosis and schizophrenia can not risk taking psychedelics due to a rare side effect that causes permanent psychosis. Humans...