Gingerbread and ginger
- Native to southeastern Asia, ginger was brought to Europe via the Silk Road.
- Ginger was used for its ability to disguise the taste of preserved meats during the Middle Ages (when refrigerators were nowhere to be found).
- Ginger was said to be used by King Henry VIII of England to build a resistance to the plague (like pepper and other spices).
- Seen as more than a sweet confection, gingerbread inherits ginger's medicinal properties, including stomach settling, nausea suppressing, etc.
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