The biography of spices
Provides a history of aromatic food flavorings, chronicling the evolution of international trade in these commodities, as well as describing the harvesting of spices including cloves and cinnamon.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Crabtree Publishing ,
c2006
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| Series: | How did that get here?
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- 1. What are spices?
- 2. Geography: from whence they came
- 3. How spices grow
- 4. Growing other spices (non-exotics)
- 5. The ancient spice trade
- 6. Frankincense and myrrh
- 7. Spices of discovery
- 8. Age of empire
- 9. U.S. traders
- 10. A spice farm
- 11. The spice market today