We always find cake when we have a birthday or wedding party.

But now people are more creative and they make Divorce cakes!

Oh my God….

Now you believe?

Saffron or Crocus sativus is the most expensive spice in the world. The expense is not comes from the lack of availability, because actually it is easily cultivated, but comes from the extraordinary labor involved in the harvesting and preparing for the storage. It takes anything from 70,000 to 250,000 flowers to make one pound of saffron and you have to hand pick the flower in the autumn when fully open. It is not the expense that make the saffron usage in foods is very little, bit because if you add it too much, you will make your food biter. Using it in large quantities will also make it become toxic.

Saffron will enhance the flavor of many styles of foods, but it have to be used sparingly because the flavor explodes when added to dishes. Saffron is used for both the color-it is bright orange-yellow color, and for the strong intense of the flavor and aroma.

You can find Saffron usage in Moorish, Mediterranean and Asian foods. Risoto Milanese, the most famous of Italian rice dishes is also using saffron as additional ingredients for the delicate flavor of the saffron. It will also goes well with fish and seafood and you can also find the usage in England on the Cornish saffron buns.

Wasabi or Wasabia japonica is one of the most prized crops in Japan. This is a root with pale green appearance that grown in cold mountain streams. Wasabi is actually related to cabbages, a perennial which grows as semi aquatic and produces a thickened stem like small brussel sprout that has a very pungent smell and flavor when you make it as a paste.

Believe is often used as eye-watering and sinus-scouring vivid green side dish paste that usually served with Sushi, Sashimi and Soba dishes. It is also used as a concoction of horseradish, mustard, and artificial coloring.

Besides for the unique role as a food condiment, Wasabi is also possesses active ingredients that able to kill various cancer cells, reduce the risk of blood cloths, encourage your immune system to discard cells that start to mutate, and also great anti-bacterial and anti-fungal agent against food poisons. Beta-carotenes and glucosinolatesis also found in Wasabi. It can also kills some forms of E-Coli and Staphylococcus and have a unique isothicynates (ITC) group that have proven efficiency in supporting natural liver and digestive detoxification functions. Additional scientific study also found the efficacious in reducing cancer risk. So with those benefits, don’t hesitate in adding Wasabi in your food creation.