Show I 1 I Romans Loved Cinnamon Used It in Their Balms The strong fr fragrance of cinnamon cinnamon cinna china mon greeting our nostrils gives us pleasure even before we eat the food that it flavors The human nose has always responded responded re re- re to this odor and the ancient Romans held it in particular es es- es- es teem They used it liberally in their ointments and balms as well as in their cooking and as the ultimate ul ui- mark of at their appreciation of this spice th they y set it apart as the incense for sacrificial and ceremonial ceremonial ceremonial nial fires When a god was to be appeased or the sh shade of ot a departed spirit W was lS to be honored it was the perfume per per- fume Cume of cinnamon wafted heavenward heavenward heavenward heaven heaven- ward on uprising clouds of at smoke that carried the mess message No Roman Roman Reman Ro Ro- man doubted that an odor so pleasing pleasing pleas pleas- ing lag to man could fail to placate the Olympian The Roman media of at atonement was not buns but bonfires and their theory W was lS that the more cinnamon cinnamon cin cm- namon consumed the greater the incense and therefore the gre greater lter the pleasure of the diely or the spirit who was being honored |