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Arab spice traders once controlled nearly all movement of spices between Asia (including the famous Spice Islands), India, Africa, and Europe, so almost every spice in existence has found a place in Middle Eastern cuisine.iddle Eastern cooking traditionally uses a vast array of spices, from staples like cumin, coriander, turmeric and mint to exotic blends like Ras el Hanout and Za'atar.
The four most popular spices at the time were cinnamon, black pepper, ginger, and saffron, and according Francesco Pegolotti (a Florentine banker in the 1340's who documented the commodity, there were over 288 spices in Medieval Europe (12).ith the introduction of spices, meals suddenly became a fashion in ancient Europe, and spicy food symbolized material comfort and social prominence. An urban legend is that spices were popular in Europe solely because of their ability to cure meat, or conceal the taste of spoiled meat (3).