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Indonesian
Clove Cigarette and Tobacco Articles |
| Cloves |

Cloves are the aromatic dried flower buds of a tree (Syzygium aromaticum,
sometimes included in the genus Eugenia) in the family Myrtaceae.
It is native to Indonesia and used as a spice in virtually all the
world's cuisine. The name derives from French clou, a nail, as the
buds vaguely resemble small irregular nails in shape. Cloves are
harvested primarily in Indonesia and Madagascar; it is also grown
in Zanzibar, India, Sri Lanka, and the "Spice Islands"
(Moluccas, Indonesia known as the Bandas Islands). more
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| Kreteks |
Kreteks
are Indonesian cigarettes made with a complex blend
of tobacco, cloves and a flavoring 'sauce'. They are often called
clove cigarettes. It is believed that the name kretek, which is
the Indonesian word for the cigarettes, comes from the crackling
sound the cloves make when they are burned. Kreteks were originally
created by Haji Jamahri, a resident of Kudus, Java, Indonesia, in
the early 1880's for medicinal purposes as a way to deliver the
eugenol in the cloves to the lungs, as it was thought to help asthma.
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| Tobacco |
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 Tobacco
(Nicotiana spp., L.) refers to a genus of broad-leafed plants of
the nightshade family indigenous to North and South America or to
the dried and cured leaves. Such leaves are often smoked (see tobacco
smoking) in the form of a cigar or cigarette, or in a smoking pipe,
or in a water pipe or a hookah. Tobacco is also chewed, "dipped"
(placed between the cheek and gum), and consumed as finely powdered
snuff tobacco, which is sniffed into the nose. The Spanish word
"tabaco" is thought to have its origin in Arawakan language,
particularly, in the Taino language of the Caribbean, said to refer
to a roll of these leaves (according to Bartolome de Las Casas,
1552) or to a kind of pipe for smoking it (according to Oviedo),
but Sp. tabaco (also It. tabacco) was comonly used to define medicinal
herbs from 1410, originating from the Arabic "tabbaq",
reportedly since the 9th c., as the name of various herbs. The word
might then be European, and later applied to this plant from the
Americas . "tabago" a Y-shaped pipe used to sniff tobacco
smoke through the nostrils. more
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| Coffee |
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The word entered English in 1598 via Italian caffè, via Turkish
kahveh, from Arabic qahwa. Its ultimate origin is uncertain, there
being several legendary accounts of the origin of the drink. One
possible explanation is the Kaffa region in Ethiopia, where the
plant originated (its native name there being bunna). Coffee beans
were first imported from Ethiopia to Yemen. One legendary account
(though certainly a myth) is that of the Yemenite Sufi mystic named
Shaikh ash-Shadhili. When traveling in Ethiopia he observed goats
of unusual vitality and, upon trying the berries that the goats
had been eating, experienced the same effect. A similar myth ascribes
the discovery to an Ethiopian goatherd named Kaldi. Qahwa originally
referred to a type of wine, and need not be the name of the Kaffa
region. more
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