Saturday, June 20, 2009

Food Spotlight


GINGER is a knobby, light brown coloured fleshy root of a tropical plant 'zanjabil' with a warm aroma and hot burning taste. It is available fresh, dried, preserved in sugar syrup and as a ground dried powder. ginger is mentioned in the Quran as a drink we will receive "And there will be circulated among them vessels of silver and cups having been[created] clear [as glass],
Clear glasses [made] from silver of which they have determined the measure.
And they will be given to drink a cup [of wine] whose mixture is of ginger.
[From] a fountain within Paradise named Salsabeel.
There will circulate among them young boys made eternal. When you see them, you would think them [as beautiful as] scattered pearls.
And when you look there [in Paradise], you will see pleasure and great dominion."
(76.15-20)

Ginger reduces nausea helps with digestion and increases sexual drive.


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