{"id":28,"date":"2017-11-02T09:02:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T09:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetwinghotels.com\/jetwingkurulubedda\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2017-12-27T09:54:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T09:54:04","slug":"cinnamon-peeling-centres","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jetwinghotels.com\/jetwingkurulubedda\/things-to-do-in-galle\/cinnamon-peeling-centres\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinnamon Peeling Centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Traditional Insights into our World-famous Ancient Spice<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many centuries ago, Arab merchants who arrived at the port of Galle would source the world\u2019s finest cinnamon from our shores, and sell it at exorbitant prices in the west with a single catch \u2013 the source remains a secret. Until the European colonial powers discovered maritime routes to Sri Lanka, the Arabs profited with a global monopoly on cinnamon, and our ports thrived on the ancient spice route.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Ceylon Cinnamon is perhaps Sri Lanka\u2019s most coveted spice &#8211; accounting for nearly 90% of the world\u2019s supply of cinnamon. And yet, the master cultivators use the same traditional tools used by their forefathers before them. From Jetwing Kurulubedda, a journey to some of Sri Lanka\u2019s most reputed cinnamon peeling centres serves as an insightful discovery into the timeless trade of this prized spice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional Insights into our World-famous Ancient Spice &nbsp; Many centuries ago, Arab merchants who arrived at the port of Galle would source the world\u2019s finest cinnamon from our shores, and sell it at exorbitant prices in the west with a single catch \u2013 the source remains a secret. Until the European colonial powers discovered maritime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":26,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetwinghotels.com\/jetwingkurulubedda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetwinghotels.com\/jetwingkurulubedda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetwinghotels.com\/jetwingkurulubedda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetwinghotels.com\/jetwingkurulubedda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetwinghotels.com\/jetwingkurulubedda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetwinghotels.com\/jetwingkurulubedda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetwinghotels.com\/jetwingkurulubedda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/484"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetwinghotels.com\/jetwingkurulubedda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetwinghotels.com\/jetwingkurulubedda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}