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Its use spread rapidly; by the Middle Ages, it was known throughout the civilized
world. When it reached the West Indies, it found the perfect climate. Jamaican ginger is
known, even in China, as one of the finest gingers grown anywhere, and it is a principal
export of the West Indies.
By the fourteenth century, ginger was so well liked in England that its consumption
ranked second only to pepper. Shakespeare, always quick to reflect the popular taste,
speaks of it as the ultimate love offering when he writes, in
Love's Labour's Lost
, “An
I had but one penny in the world, thou shouldst have it to buy ginger-bread.”
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