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Series
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Provides information about the Spice Routes, a network of sea routes that link the East with the West, and discusses the experiences of some of the early explorers who traveled the routes in search of trade, treasure, or adventure.
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Combining travelogue and recipes, this book tells the story of how Chris and Carolyn Caldicott followed the trails of the early spice merchants on their search for authentic spice recipes. As they travel through the Eastern Mediterranean, the Indian subcontinent, Asia, Africa and the Americas, they explain how indigenous spices were traded and how foreign spices arrived, and they explore the effect the spices have had on the local cuisines, supplying...
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
"Spice: The History of a Temptation is a history of the spice trade told not in the conventional narrative of politics and economics, nor of conquest and colonization, but through the intimate human impulses that inspired and drove it. Here is an exploration of the centuries-old desire for spice in food, in medicine, in magic, in religion, and in sex - and of the allure of forbidden fruit lingering in the scents of cinnamon, pepper, ginger, nutmeg,...
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