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know would never substitute saffron for turmeric, unless simply using it as a dye. colour is the only thing these two spices have in common. while saffron, the hand-picked stamens of a purple crocus, is the world's most expensive spice, turmeric is one of the cheapest. turmeric is the rhizome, or underground
stem, of a perennial native to south india and south-east asia. it thrives in the moist tropics and sub-tropics and is cultivated in india, pakistan, sri lanka, china, the west indies, indonesia, malaysia, vietnam, peru and australia. in its fresh form, it looks like ginger, though it's more of an orange...
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