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...team visited 15 Indian specialty stores in the Boston area and purchased 71 cultural powders and 86 spices and food products. About 25% of the food items, including spices such as cardamom, fenugreek and chili powder, contained more than 1 microgram of lead per gram of product. About 65% of the ceremonial powders, including sindoor, which is used as a symbol of marriage, contained the same amount. Those levels are below the E.U.'s acceptable threshold of 2 to 3 mcg/g of lead, but the study's authors say that regardless of the amount, the presence of lead in these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Lead Poisoning Could Lurk in Spices | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

...fashion statement or a financial one, fragrance designers are in the black for fall, introducing seductive scents in dark flacons. The perfumes are all marked by sultry notes, with hints of amber and rose in Prada's L'Eau Ambrée and Natori from Josie Natori, and spicy cardamom and cedarwood in D&G's Le Bateleur and Back to Black: Aphrodisiac by Kilian. The striking vials suit the bold '80s mood that recently overtook runways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dark Stars | 9/13/2009 | See Source »

...Saturday Get back to basics, and the Bible, with a visit to the Chapel of Ananias. This is the house where Saul (later Saint Paul) was baptized after being healed of blindness. Wander down Straight Street (also referred to as Via Recta), and allow the scent of cardamom and roasting coffee to waft you back to Ottoman trading days. Gaze at the stalls selling damask roses and leeches. Step into the 18th century courtyard of Khan Suleiman Pasha, once a caravansary on the Silk Road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Do Damascus | 8/6/2009 | See Source »

...Lunch on tabbouleh and stuffed vine leaves at Al-Khawali, tel: (963-11) 222 5808. A postprandial cardamom coffee should give you the energy for a tour of Azem Palace, the biggest Ottoman house in the Old City. You may snigger at the mannequins in period costume, but you'll gasp at the exquisite carving, painted ceilings and marble floors. Move on to Umayyad Mosque, one of the world's oldest, having been completed in 715. Before that, it was successively an Aramaean temple, a Roman temple and then a Byzantine church. Over the centuries it has become a meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Do Damascus | 8/6/2009 | See Source »

...Bull has always been upfront about the recipe for its new cola. Its website boasts colorful pictures of coca, cardamom and Kola nuts, along with other key "natural" ingredients. The company insists, however, that coca leaves are used as a flavoring agent only after removing the illegal cocaine alkaloid. "De-cocainized extract of coca leaf is used worldwide in foods as a natural flavoring," said a Red Bull spokesman in response to the German government's announcement. Though the cocaine alkaloid is one of 10 alkaloids in coca leaves and represents only 0.8% of the chemical makeup of the plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Bull's New Cola: A Kick from Cocaine? | 5/25/2009 | See Source »

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