People needed spices because they needed it to cook and make food smell or taste nice, good and maybe refreshing.
The Tudors needed spices to flavour their bland food. Back in the Tudor times there wasn't a large range of tastes from their foods so spices were added for flavour. Although mostly only rich people used exotic and intresting spices.
Europeans mainly wanted spices for trade. The merchants at that time wanted to make a huge living and as their trading became better with people, they looked for things that people would want or find valuable.
Spices are expensive in tudor times. If you are poor and you want to eat spices you need to grow it in your garden.
When the crusaders were exposed to different kinds of spices during the holy wars, they brought them back to Europe. Europeans were used to home grown plain food but with the introduction to spices, it completely changed their diet and left them yearning for more. Spices were expensive and they became a sign of wealth and the need for more spices arose which led to people like Columbus discovering America in search for a shorter route to the Indies in search of spices.
Spices we use are like the normal mexican stuff.
No, spices do not contain enough nutrients and you also need water to survive.
Two tablespoons....Enjoy
It gives flavor to our food and our lives.
He liked spices so much because people were willing to pay a lot of money for spices because spices kept food fresh longer.
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salt and pepper
I heard they use "Perfect Spice". Stuff was created by the people who formulated the Cornell's secret spices.