Cumin, camels, and caravans : a spice odyssey
Gary Paul Nabhan (Author)
Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family's history as spice traders, as well as travel narratives, historical accounts, and an ethnobotanical exploration of spices and their uses, Nabhan describes the critically important roles that Semitic peoples and desert floras had in setting the stages for globalized spice trade. Traveling along four prominent trade routes-the Silk Road, and the Frankincense Trail
History
1 online resource (xiv, 305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps
9780520956957, 9781306329781, 0520956958, 1306329787
868491244
Introduction : The origin of "species"
Aromas emanating from the driest of places
Caravans leaving Arabia Felix
Uncovering hidden outposts in the desert
Omanis rocking the cradle of civilization
Mecca and the migrations of Muslim and Jewish traders
Merging the spice routes with the Silk Roads
The flourishing of cross-cultural collaboration in Iberia
The crumbling of convivencia and the rise of transnational guilds
Building bridges between continents and cultures
Navigating the maritime silk roads from China to Africa
Vasco da Gama mastering the game of globalization
Crossing the drawbridge over the eastern ocean
Epilogue : Culinary imperialism and its alternatives
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