I think, spices
get one of the most important places in the racks and cupboards of the genuine
department of the kitchen of most Ladies. That does not mean it is only the
ladies who fall in love with spices there are men too who runs hospitality
departments- global, with so much dignity.
The Asian Women uses varieties of spices than the European Ladies, do
not know whether the ladies of that part of the globe would agree with me. The
queen of all spices, chilly and flowery queen, turmeric, cordial coriander,
tasty curry powder, mustard, sincere cinnamon, polite pepper etc
Cloves and
cinnamon; I guess are a little expensive flavory components compared to the
other types of spicy components in the Global Markets. In the colonial periods,
mostly the Islands and countries like ours were focused and later captured due
to their own specific interests and reasons, it is true but one of the reasons
apart from the reasons such as; expanding
the colonial kingdoms in any region or in the continents ‘where they could see
some specifications or benefits’ economically or politically. Apart from the
reasons known and unknown, it is alright to say the islands like ours were dominated
by the traders of the worldwide from time to time, coming to an agreements, various,
again thinking of the benefits that they could get easily from this part of the
world, with the rulers of the particular eras under some conditions (give and
take) such as, ‘we provide this service’, ‘you provide spices such as cinnamon’.
Sincere cinnamon was actually a good sources of income for them because not
like other spices, this sincere cinnamon is used worldwide by almost all the women
in their stylish cooking.
Let’s have a look
at the pictures of some colonial rulers of this part of the world, Portuguese for
instance, they were very fond of sincere cinnamon because they knew the worth
and price they could get from selling it in the global market even back then. They
knew what method and strategy they should use to get what they wanted, in quintals
or in what quantity they need them.
I know that it is
the nature of trading. Who does trading without expecting any profit? Cloves
obviously a queen of spicy queens and even back then I am sure, she has
dominated the markets, famous, of this spicy globe.
You can get any
hot or spicy spices of your choice if you have the pocketful of love towards
tastes and flavours and fond of stylish cooking
Markets are full
of agreements, dealings and profits. Who is unaware of that? According to the
agreements made between almost all or most the colonial emperors and empires, one
of the significance of the agreements were, trade oriented. Almost all had
plans, ideas as to what they can get from this soil and should send back to
their kingdoms to widen and fatten their financial safes.
To defeat an enemy
often the history witness that some of the rulers have requested help from
another enemy actually all that were happened without knowing ‘how harmful
sometimes to seek help from a little known or totally unknown. The Portuguese,
the kings of trade were totally strange to the people of our country but for
them ‘trading was very familiar and no strange thing.
The agreement made between the King Keerthi
Sri and the Dutch was specific and important because of many important reasons
and it contained 25 sentences of various political and economically important
sentences, such as, specific consideration was given, regarding the freedom of
trade activities in the Island. Including, Paying a tax to the king of Kandy
from the income of coastal areas, the Sinhalese should be given the right to
get salt from the farms of salt without paying anything, the company should be given
permission to get the cinnamon grown in all the areas of the Low country, and
from the harvest of the cinnamon grown, in the up country area, the Dutch
should be given 5 pagodi of cinnamon and the spices such as , ariconut,
athdath, enasal, pepper should not be sold to any outside traders other than to
the Dutch, as agreed. Main reason to agreeing to such an agreement was to get
rid of Portuguese
The spicy spices
not only fills the safes of the entrepreneurs but also such fills the taste
buds of the hot or spicy customers.
So with or without
agreements, the rulers of colonial kingdoms sailed back to their trade
kingdoms, taking the spices in quintals or pagoda from Sri Lanka, touching the
Indian routes taking what they could cotton for instance.
Hot and spicy
spices sailed, through continents until the ships full, reaches the popular
Market of London, the Old and antique Constantinople; the emperor of ancient
Trade markets
Credible Cloves
and sincere cinnamon, travel across continents passing the households of poor,
the middle, the high, emperors, popular, Brahmins, Smiths, the Niters,
Admirals, governors, Hiltons, Taj Samudra, cinnamon lake, meets at cafeterias,
Ala Cates, Buffets. Cloves and cinnamon, spices in particular, gives sort of an
advice as to ‘too much of them spoil your cuisine’ ‘take and add only what is
required to flavor your dish of choice.
I am not going to
write anything about ‘the uses of cloves’. Every bit of information regarding
the uses and benefits are moduled in the modules of graffiti, text books, in
the nets of internets, in the curriculums, in the secrets of the chef’s –
cuisines, in the books of indigenous medicine, in the leaflets of the
entrepreneurial agendas, beneath the trees of cloves, in the research of
agrarians, in the diaries of traders – only the published. Are there anything
written in the reports of Iban Batuta? Yes, I believe. What did Lorenzo De
Almaida have reported to their king of Ocean about Credible clove and sincere
cinnamon, interesting to know?
My mind goes back
to several eras of history without really following any particular order of
colonialities. I already talked about the agreement between the king Keerthi
Sri and the Dutch (1658 – 1796) but before that there were agreements made
between the Portuguese (1505 – 1658) who set foot here as the first group to
enter this Island from that part of the globe.
One of the
conditions that were kept before the crown of the king of the Kotte back in
1505 by the Portuguese when they freshly trying to enter the country, through
the agent Payo de Susa was purely I was trade oriented though their desires and
objectives of settling down here on a permanent basis thinking of the benefits
not only trade but also ‘the total package of benefits’. Sincere Cinnamon was
one of their objectives of trade from this part of the world. Cinnamon; as a
price for protecting (?) the country from the enemies that they assumed would
come to capture the Island, through the naval routes, the king of the Dutch,
Portugal back then known as the emperor of the Ocean were promised to give 150
quintals of cinnamon, annually.
Every route was
specifically important for traders and the natural harbours that they could
easily protect their ships from natural hazards such as storms until they
finish their dealings. And the natural harbours around the country were given
all the traders the opportunities to easily reach India when ever wanted to
visit their admin areas and to other administrative points.
Credible cloves
and Sincere Cinnamon has shown them not only trade paths but also political
paths to fatten their colonial kingdoms, I believe
I believe it is no
harm to close your shops of cloves and cinnamon for few days under what ever
conditions or in what ever situations but I guess it is no good in the long run
of enterprise and for the so far satisfied customers of the so far fair
dealings, around the Island and across continents. Protests, I like to say
sincerely, must not only spoil our dishes and cuisines but it mustn’t spoil our
trades. Compensate and compensation is nice pair of terms that entrepreneurs
can go for as a harmonious alternative. Often customers ask for fair dealings
like they always want the best and if you close your shop for even for a few
days, they would ask you to compensate, I do not know how though.
And please Pardon
the sinful if anyone of you thinks that there are some who enjoy spoiling the
plates of others putting too much of spicy or hot ingredients unnecessarily. Lets
colour our plate of hard work by adding the colours of Credible clove. And lets
share a good plate of good wills sincerely adding some sincere cinnamon to your
thoughts as well.
It is we who grow
cloves and cinnamon here and don’t you think that we understand our soils and
geo metric conditions better than the others? When the cultivation is spoiled
or disturbed or infected by any hazards, such can be cured using some good
thoughts of fertilizer and pesticides. But use them as required but do not
forget you need to use them intelligently. The agrarians know how to deal with
them than the people who do not know how to grow credible cloves or sincere
cinnamon. Therefore, on behalf of the sincere customers I like to note here and
remind though we know that you have not forgotten anything of the old routes
and ways of trading and the battles faced to protect all our low country
cinnamon and up country cloves, please try to get advice from the knowledgeable,
rather than jumping in to your own methodologies to solve the viruses related
to any cultivation
Ethically we must
let the people who love to use cloves as they wish and cinnamon as they
preferred no outsider can interrupt their taste buds and strategies of cooking
and interest of tasting them, joyfully not any other fully or forcefully
The trade lanes of
cloves and cinnamon should not be bannered with the black flags other than the
flags of their nationalities and the home pages should be designed, edited with
the pictures of smiling faces of traders of cloves and cinnamon
Let’s enhance the
credible cloves and sincere cinnamon
Let’s high lighten
the enthusiasm of the growers of the credible incredible cloves
Let’s try to share
the thoughts of lanes of people across the globe for a better purpose,
including the thoughts of people of ‘Sal
Mal Lane’ for a peaceful and
sincere journey of credible cloves and sincere cinnamon
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