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Clove

cloves · Cravinho

Family: Clove

The signature of the coast. Sweet, medicinal, numbing; almost pure eugenol. Dominates fast, so a pilau for six wants six to eight cloves, not twenty

Cooked with in 275 dishes across 28 food worlds

West Africa · 2 dishes

Central Africa · 2 dishes

The Horn · 5 dishes

North Africa · 3 dishes

East Africa and the Islands · 12 dishes

Southern Africa · 4 dishes

The Levant and Anatolia · 2 dishes

The Gulf and Arabia · 12 dishes

Persia and the Caucasus · 4 dishes

The Indian subcontinent · 31 dishes

The Sinosphere · 16 dishes

Mainland Southeast Asia · 4 dishes

Maritime Southeast Asia · 24 dishes

Korea and Japan · 4 dishes

Central Asia and the steppe · 1 dishes

The Mediterranean · 2 dishes

Iberia · 13 dishes

France and the Alps · 9 dishes

Central Europe · 6 dishes

The Slavic east and the Balkans · 8 dishes

Mesoamerica · 26 dishes

The Caribbean · 29 dishes

The Andes · 12 dishes

Amazonia · 4 dishes

North America · 13 dishes

Mainland Brazil · 16 dishes

Aotearoa and Australia · 2 dishes

Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia · 9 dishes

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