{"id":2751,"date":"2025-11-17T13:37:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/?p=2751"},"modified":"2026-01-05T18:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:52:18","slug":"spice-of-the-month-turmeric","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/?p=2751","title":{"rendered":"Spice of the Month: Turmeric"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Turmeric<\/strong>\u00a0is the dried knobby shaped rhizome of the plant Curcuma longa. Noted for its bright yellow color, it is related to and similar in appearance to ginger. In many languages, the name \u201c<strong>turmeric<\/strong>\u201d literally means \u201cyellow root\u201d. Stop at the circulation desk for your sample of\u00a0<strong>turmeric\u00a0<\/strong>and some fun, new recipes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Untitled-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Untitled-2-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2752\" style=\"width:506px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Untitled-2-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Untitled-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Untitled-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Untitled-2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Untitled-2-510x510.png 510w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Untitled-2.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turmeric\u00a0is the dried knobby shaped rhizome of the plant Curcuma longa. Noted for its bright yellow color, it is related to and similar in appearance to ginger. In many languages, the name \u201cturmeric\u201d literally means \u201cyellow root\u201d. Stop at the circulation desk for your sample of\u00a0turmeric\u00a0and some fun, new recipes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[373,414],"class_list":{"0":"post-2751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-archive","4":"format-standard","6":"category-adult-programming","7":"category-family-programming","8":"tag-spice-of-the-month","9":"tag-turmeric","10":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2793,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751\/revisions\/2793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}