A SECRET WEAPON FOR GENIE

Herbs and spices have been tremendously prized in the course of the ʿAbbāsid Caliphate (ce 750–1258), and, in the cash town of Baghdad, sumptuous banquets hosted because of the caliph ended up ready with herbs and spices to achieve flavours for instance sweet, bitter, fragrant, and pungent. In ce 812 Charlemagne issued a decree listing each of