1- 13 CHECK! I've done them all. And a WHOOOOOLE bunch more.
Started making cheeses, smoking and drying meats and even growing our own spices and such.
Plenty of fresh ginger for ginger beer and right down to turmeric root.
I use that a lot in Thai food.
Lots of fruits we Northerners never heard of, like; Jujube, Caimita, Araza, Grumichama.
I just put up olives today in herbed brine. They look beautiful. Some regular, some definitely spicy.
"...once more, after the usual period of years, the torrents of heaven sweep down like a pestilence leaving only the rude and unlettered among you."
~Plato's Timaeus