Origin: Sri Lanka. From a purely historical perspective, cinnamon is a truly amazing spice. As far back as biblical times, the bark was traded across the longest, most convoluted of routes. Arab traders brought cinnamon back from the far East to the Mediterranean, North Africa & Europe, making it a staple ingredient for hundreds of years. Cinnamon has become so revered that it has even been beatified by the Catholic Church; Saint Cinnamon is the patron saint of obesity & diabetes