This seems to be the second series on SBS I've seen in the last couple of years devoted to spices, but I have been enjoying Spice Trip. Last night they were on Grenada, a country you rarely see on travel shows, looking at nutmeg and mace.
Curiously, the male co-host, a London chef with a name (Stevie!), voice and manner which I thought indicated he was gay, last night noted that he has one child and another on the way. (He has a wife and two sons, I see. Maybe the English really are the easiest nationality to mistake as gay.) This came up in the context of the alleged aphrodisiac qualities of nutmeg - people from Grenada talk a lot, it seems, about how a meal full of nutmeg will assuredly make you "horny".
My decreasing number of long term readers will recall my interest in nutmeg because of Uncle Scrooge having an addiction to nutmeg tea, which turned out to be kind of unfortunate because you can indeed get high (although not pleasantly so, apparently) from consuming too much of the spice. And yes, this did get mentioned on the show last night, with a warning that you should consume no more than 5 g a day, and (if I recall correctly) more than 15 g might kill you (!). I must now weigh a nutmeg nut to check its weight.
Anyhow, I see the whole episode is on DailyMotion, if you are interested:
E4 Spice Trip - Nutmeg - Grenada by zodiacza
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