Cinnamon: More Than a Spice

Cinnamomum verum (true or Ceylon cinnamon) has been among the most valued spices in human history, traded across thousands of miles in the ancient world and worth its weight in silver at various points in the medieval spice trade. Cinnamon bark rolled into quills...

Holy Basil Through Winter: The Year-Round Adaptogen

Tulsi (Ocimum tenuiflorum) may have finished in the garden by November, cut down by the first frost, but the jars of dried tulsi on the apothecary shelf and the tincture bottles filled in summer carry the plant’s gifts forward into winter in concentrated,...