Friday 24 April 2015

Cinnamon: Harvesting Cassia In The Jungles Of Sumatra

One of the most beloved spices in the world, cinnamon is actually the dried and curled up inner bark of trees in the genus Cinnamomum. Cassia Cinnamon is one of those and the majority of it grows in the lush Kerenci Valley on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.

It's a sustainable crop that has been harvested in more or less the same way for centuries. See how the inner bark of the tree is harvested and dried to form this incomparable spice loved around the world.



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(thanks Cora)

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