Some From Column A and Some From Column B
As goes this series, we have covered a great deal of the Spice Islands and India and Indonesia. That was not the plan, it just sorta worked out that way. Today we move.
Allspice is native to Jamaica. Columbus stumbled upon it on his second journey to the New World. Allspice is the dried fruit of the pimento Dioica tree and is native to the New World. It is picked when unripe, green, and allowed to dry in the sun where it hardens and turns dark brown and resembles a smooth, large black peppercorn. In the New World, this native tree does produce fruit in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, but the Jamaican allspice is the best. Best is defined by a higher percentage of the essential oil eugenol.
