Special Ingredients: Grains of Paradise (Discovered on a trip to Angles Camp)

My husband recently took me for a weekend trip to Calaveras County.  What does that have to do with Grains of Paradise?  Very little, except that I found this interesting spice while in Murphys, which along with Angels Camp reside in Calaveras County, California. Grains of Paradise Grains of Paradise, formally known as Aframomum melegueta is a species in the ginger family. It has a few other names