Cumin, Camels, and Caravans: A Spice Odyssey

摘要

This is a book steeped in many stories. Much like the spices that the book follows, each story lends a specific flavor, a unique taste that reflects their particular substances, which inflect the book with aromas of distant lands and familiar places, of ancestors and strangers, of travel and home, of myth and legend, of intimate parts of plants and animals and of prophesy, poetry, and cookbooks. In their combination these stories produce an image of globalization we rarely consider, one centered on the spice trade of Arabia.