"We have no evidence of spices being imported to anywhere in Scandinavia at that time. There's no written evidence and there's no physical evidence [from archeological digs]." - Daniel Serra, culinary historian.
"You would need an audience that knows what it is. You would be spending all your savings on bringing home these spices that nobody would understand." - Daniel Serra.
"One of the earliest evidence for spices is the description of a market in Mainz by an Arab cumin merchant, who finds spices, but then he goes on to Hedeby, which is in the south of Denmark, and says only that the food is terrible." - Daniel Serra.
"The earliest written evidence of cinnamon being used in Sweden appears in a recipe for the mulled beer Saint Bridget of Sweden... when half a kilogram of the expensive spice was used."
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