Allspice comes from a tree called Pimenta dioica. The evergreen tree is native to the West Indies, Mexico and Central America ...

Nutmeg provides antioxidants, but a few spices are even higher in these protective compounds. These include cloves, allspice, ...

The calendar says it's fall even though here in sub-tropical Florida, the temperatures are still making us sweat. The fall solstice has come and gone and here on the Treasure Coast, the days are ...

Allspice trees, Pimenta dioica, are pretty trees for the landscape and were the subject of a previous column during the holidays. There were several questions and comments about these trees. Julie ...

Of all the spices in the world, it is safe to say that with allspice, there has been nothing but confusion from the get-go. The now extinct Arawaks, the first inhabitants of Jamaica, had never been ...

While Christopher Columbus was busy mistaking the Americas for the East Indies, he also confused the identity of what we now know as allspice. Allspice berries look something like peppercorns, and ...

In the April Green Pages, I asked the reader to consider what the Walsingham nature reserves look like now, how they looked like a few decades ago and what they looked like before man arrived in ...