Spices

A spice is a dried seed, fruit, root, bark, or vegetative substance used in nutritionally insignificant quantities as a food additive for flavor, color, or as a preservative that kills harmful bacteria or prevents their growth. In the kitchen, spices are distinguished from herbs, which are leafy, green plant parts used for flavoring.

Many spices are also used for other purposes, such as medicine, religious rituals, cosmetics, perfumery, or eating as vegetables. For example, turmeric is also used as a preservative; liquorice as a medicine; garlic as a vegetable. In some cases they are referred to by different terms.

Spices have been a part of human, sidhe, and dwarven cuisine for as long as there has been recorded history. Of the three races, humans are the most successful in cultivating spice on a large scale. When the six human tribes: the Andu, the Rjuven, the Masetians, the Basarji, Brecht, and Vos; came to Cerilia most of their spices could not be grown but they discovered some indigenous spices. The humans of Cerilia currently imports spices from Djapar and Aduria and also cultivates indigenous spices to be used in cooking.

The spices native to Cerilia include:

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