Grains of Paradise

But he's also got an American friend's recipe, a kind of pear and cranberry pandoro, kind of like a panettone.

And I like the idea of mixing it up, because instead of using a kind of cardamom vibe, he's used grains of paradise, which is something I'm not familiar with.

But it sounds delicious.

We do enjoy a cultural mash-up bread here.

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Right.

His was...

I would like to try that Grains of Paradise.

Yeah.

It sounded good.

Yeah

... 'cause, you know, we do love covering nature news that's a little controversial, and I saw that grains of paradise, which is an, a herb spice that you use in your book, was once banned in Europe.

Can you tell me a little bit about that?

Yeah.

So I did a series on grains of paradise.

Again, I, I wanted to use these as opportunities for people to see that sometimes these spices are not from, uh, completely different planets.

So it was...

It came about during the time when alcohol was being adultered a lot in England, and one of the adultering ingredients was grains of paradise.

Another secret of the recipes inspired by Pierre de Lune are these famous bunches of herbs.

Cardamon, melegueta, hot pepper, and saffron were discarded.

Only cinnamon was retained for desserts.

Parsley, chervil, tarragon, basil, thyme, bay tree leaves, or chives were the chosen herbs of the day.

And there's so many scams, like the acai one that drained my account.

Um, Grains of Paradise is one that's super unique, hard to find.

Um, the clinical studies on that are super interesting for visceral fat, so that's the fat that's, like, around your organs.

So that's not the fat you can palpably feel and squeeze with your hands.

But that targeted fat's crazy, um, to lose that kind of fat.

I actually have someone in my gym that, older woman, I wanna say she's probably 70s, and she did a DEXA scan.

She took a clinical dose of Grains of Paradise every day for 90 days and dropped, like, a significant amount-

Wow