Lost in Dreams…

I got a new Spice mill this weekend and thanks to it I have been making great salads and omelets (a very relative notion). But cannot stop wondering how the spice over the egg has changed the world history. These spices have established empires, destroyed civilizations, revealed new continents and changed the power equations of the great empires. It was one of the reasons that men set sail into the unknown with promise of the riches out of the spice trade resulting in discovery of new routes, lands, people and also in wiping out ancient empires and resulting in imperialisation that has led to the world as we know today.

Spices that garnish my salads at one time were more valuable than gold and any known worldly possession. They were the cause why Vasco Da Gama landed in India and later, British taking over India to guarantee the supplies of spices so that the monarch can have a more flavorful dinner. Out of the trade that resulted with these spices wealth was concentrated in certain places of the world and which resulted in more development and ultimately the Industrial Revolution and rest is modern history.

All in the name of tasty food…

My attempt with pastels…

Even though I was not a regular user of Shelfari (a social book cataloging website), I used to have it in my daily list of websites to check. Today I was greeted by the ever colorful ban page of Etisalat when I tried to visit it. It seems according to Etisalat, this particular site has been blocked because its content is inconsistent with the religious, cultural, political and moral values of United A**** Emirates.

I guess I need to agree to views of my friend who says that “Dung Beetles hardly know the difference between Chicken poop and Apple Pie”

Update [25th June 2008]: The ban has been removed for now[Link] and I have placed a widget in this blog too…

“The rust rots the steel which use preserves.” – Lytton