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Find a comfortable spot. Adjust your volume. Take a nice deep breath in. Let it out slowly.

And off we go.

Tonight we're relaxing with the second part of a book that more than a few of you have

requested more from.

Spices, their histories, valuable information for grocers.

Written by Robert O Fielding, copyrighted in 1910 by the building. Let's pick up right where we left off with a discussion of ginger.

Let's begin.

Ginger, used as a spice by the early Greeks and Romans, plant a native of Asia and

grew wild in Mexico and Africa.

As a spice, Ginger was used among the early Greeks and Romans,

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