by Shankar Bhattacharyya <sbhattac@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Apr 8, 2008 at 03:27 AM
wazza <bryan.wallwork@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
news:279f7779-51f2-4a5b-a59e-b49587f02c7a@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Certainly in the US, it is cassia which is most often sold as
> cinnamon. I saw the same confusion in India, where bags of cassia
> were called cinnamom. In the UK I have seen cassia labelled as
> cinnamon and vice versa.
> Waaza
Pretty much everywhere in the world cassia is sold as cinnamon.
Perhaps Sri Lanka is different.
The only actual cinnamon I have seen in living memory was when a group
of Sri Lankan businessmen in the food arena visited our lab. They
handed out cinnamon and decent tea as smal gifts.
Most people have never seen any actual cinnamon.
In India we don't call cassia cinnamon. We call it "dalchini" or
something close to that in the various languages. The British taught
us thatthe English word is cinnamon.
It is all their fault.
- Shankar
