The best kind of cinnamon comes originally from an island south-east of India called Sri Lanka. We know that people were using cinnamon on their food at least as early as BC in Old Kingdom Egypt.
Cooks valued cinnamon because it helps to preserve food and keep it from going bad, but also just because it adds flavor. Chinese doctors also prescribed cinnamon as a medicine, and the Syrian doctor Galen also describes cinnamon as a medicine.
The Bible mentions cinnamon as one of the spices Moses used. The Egyptians , the Greeks , and the Romans were willing to pay a lot of money for cinnamon. The price of cinnamon in Europe went up, and Europeans began to look for another way to get cinnamon by exploring around the coast of Africa and sailing over the Atlantic.
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