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Traces each spice’s origin and value: cinnamon from Sri Lanka, nutmeg and mace from the Banda Islands, ginger from warm regions like India and China, cloves from eastern Indonesian islands, and allspice from the Americas, especially Jamaica. 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There is no pumpkin in it at all. Instead, you are smelling cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, and sometimes allspice, blended into one cozy cloud that means autumn to millions of people. Each of those spices has its own hometown, its own history, and once upon a time, its own eye-watering price.  \nThat price is the first clue to how far these plants traveled to reach your  \nkitchen. Take cinnamon, which is not a seed or a leaf but the dried inner bark of a tree that grows best in Sri Lanka, an island off the southern tip of India. For centuries, traders kept its true source a secret, and Sri Lanka became famous across the ancient world for shipping this curled, papery bark. Peel back a strip of true cinnamon and it rolls up on its own, like a scroll closing itself.  \nCinnamon may have kept its secrets, but nutmeg hid on some of the most fought-over islands on Earth. Nutmeg and its lacy red partner, mace, both come from a single fruit that grew almost nowhere except the Banda Islands, a tiny cluster in Indonesia often called the Spice Islands. Because the trees grew in so few places, nutmeg was once worth more than its weight in gold in Europe, and nations fought bitterly to control those specks of land. Can you imagine going to war over a seed the size of a marble? People once did exactly that.  \nWar made nutmeg costly, but the next spice was prized for a very different power: it seemed to fight off aches and pains. Ginger is not a fruit or a bark at all, but a knobby underground stem, or rhizome, that spreads beneath the soil in warm places like India and China. People chewed it, brewed it, and carried it along trade routes because it warmed the body and calmed upset stomachs. Cloves, meanwhile, are actually dried flower buds picked before they bloom, and for a long time they grew only on a few islands in eastern Indonesia.  \nThose clove-covered islands sit surprisingly close to where the last spice, allspice, does not grow at all. Allspice is the odd one out, because it came from the Americas rather than from Asia, and it grows mainly in Jamaica, where the tree's dried berries taste like cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves all at once. When Spanish explorers first tasted it, they thought it was a kind of pepper, which is why its Spanish name means \"pepper\"even today. One little berry doing the work of three spices is exactly why bakers reached for it.  \nSo how did all five spices end up crowded into one autumn flavor? Colonial cooks in America already used them in pies, and by the 1930s a company called McCormick was selling a ready-made \"pumpkin pie spice\" blend so bakers did not have to measure each one. Decades later, coffee shops borrowed that same blend, and suddenly the scent of the Spice Islands was in lattes, candles, cookies, and cereal every fall. According to a National Retail Federation survey, autumn is now one of the busiest times of year for  \nspending on seasonal treats and decorations. Not bad for a mix of bark, seeds, buds, roots, and berries that once cost a fortune and started a few wars.  \nWhere Pumpkin Spice Comes From  \nName:  \n\n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>Use the article to answer the question.\u003Cbr>1) Which two central ideas does the article develop together across the passage?\u003Cbr>A. That nutmeg is the only spice worth studying and that trade routes no longer exist\u003Cbr>B. That pumpkin spice comes from five separate plants and that those spices were once rare and valuable\u003Cbr>C. That spices are grown only in the Americas and that they are cheap to produce today\u003Cbr>D. That pumpkin spice contains real pumpkin and that it was invented by coffee shops |  |  |  |  | Answers\u003Cbr>1.  \u003Cbr>2.  \u003Cbr>3.  \u003Cbr>4.  \u003Cbr>5. |  |  |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 2) How does the article support its cl","cbCaibVJh90w6Vo1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibVJh90w6Vo1","pdf",119173,"English","# Solve each problem\n## Multiple-choice questions","[{\"question\":\"Why does pumpkin spice contain no pumpkin, according to the article?\",\"answer\":\"The article says the warm scent comes from five spices—cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, and sometimes allspice—blended together, not from pumpkin.\"},{\"question\":\"Where does cinnamon come from?\",\"answer\":\"Cinnamon is described as dried inner bark from a tree that grows best in Sri Lanka.\"},{\"question\":\"How did the blend become popular in the United States?\",\"answer\":\"Colonial cooks used these spices in pies, and by the 1930s McCormick sold a ready-made “pumpkin pie spice” blend; later coffee shops helped spread it through seasonal products.\"}]","Where Pumpkin Spice Comes From - Lesson Questions | PDF",1790807834,15]