IndiaOrganix (Brighton)
| Name | Prakash Omari |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Website | www.indiaorganix.org |
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IndiaOrganix is an Indian food brand created by Sanjay Kumar of MIKA & Co in Brighton, Sussex. IndiaOrganix was set up to promote & market the organic produce of India's traditional spice gardens, spice workers cooperatives, tribal spice producers and street traders, and SAARC funded tribal wildcrafting projects. IndiaOrganix works in partnership with traditional Indian spice houses sourcing the finest organic spice produce grown and harvested by grass-roots farmer's groups. We also work with the best British curry houses in promoting the fine spice ingredients grown in North East India and the distictive cooking styles of the 'seven sister states' of the Indian subcontinent. The Seven Sister States are a region in northeastern India, comprising the tea and spice growing regions of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Tripura. The core business activity of IndiaOrganix is the Indian spice trade; a commercial activity of ancient origin which involves the merchandising and marketing of India's culinary spices and herbs. IndiaOrganix is a traditional British Asian family business based in Brighton and Tripura (India). This i-genius profile is maintained by and for the staff of IndiaOrganix. We hope you enjoy reading the blogs. For further details about IndiaOrganix visit www.indiaorganix.org
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September:
03.09.2008
No need to spice it up: a product that sells itself
03.09.2008
The delicious diversity of Indian nosh....
02.09.2008
Mughlai food cooked the IndiaOrganix way.....
01.09.2008
Why have you named the IndiaOrganix curry house in Brighton Maharaja of Tripura?
August:
Spices, pharmacopeia & colonisation........
posted on Friday, August 08, 2008 12:59 AM
'Spices have comprised the major part of the indigenous pharmacopeia — 'spice medicine' seems to be a suitable name for it — throughout history in all parts of the world. Among practitioners of that art, the ancient Indians and Chinese were, arguably, the most advanced.
The hill that separated India and China never fully prevented intellectual discourse among the peoples of those lands. Indeed, the most highly recommended and most commonly prescribed spices (as well as plant-based remedies) in Ayurvedic medicine and traditional Chinese medicine are the same. Furthermore, Greco-Roman medicine was essentially based on the two older systems of India and China.
The Arab pharmacopeia during the age of the Arab glory was essentially "Indian-Chinese-Greek" medicine integrated with other plant-derived phytofactors. Thus, Arab medicine during the ninth through twelfth centuries A.D. was spice medicine as well. Interestingly, spices (along with silk) are what lured the Europeans to India. Vasco da Gama (1460-1524), a Portuguese explorer, discovered an ocean route from Portugal to the East. He rounded Africa's Cape of Good Hope on November 22,1497 and reached Calicut (modern Calcutta), India on May 20, 1498. He fought with Arab traders as well the Indians, using extreme torture, when he could, to establish his superiority over the natives. Vasco da Gama and his patron, King Manuel I of Portugal, were as interested in the spices of the East as they were in the silk. Accordingly, the journey of Christopher Columbus to the Americas, of course, was simply another trip made to satiate the European feeding frenzy on spices and silk — with an eye for future colonisation'.
The History and Philosophy of Integrative Medicine
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