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Asafoetida is probably the closest substitute, as it's made from the same plant genus that silphium belonged to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asafoetida https
by dangerbird2 6y ago
Asafoetida is probably the closest substitute, as it's made from the same plant genus that silphium belonged to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asafoetida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asafoetida
- antattack 6y agoTurmeric is purported to have all of the qualities attributed to Silphium where as Asafoetida does not.
- mcguire 6y ago"[A]safoetida, was used as a cheaper substitute for silphium [by the Romans], and had similar enough qualities that Romans, including the geographer Strabo, used the same word to describe both." -- the article