[Sca-cooks] black pepper wars

[Chris Stanifer]

--- Samrah <auntie_samrah at yahoo.com> wrote:

> When my kid brother was in college, probably a good 15 years ago now, he took a class and found
> that sometime in period, somewhere in period wars were raged over black pepper.  We seem to have
> lost the class notes.  


Rome was forced to cough up huge amounts of pepper as part of it's ransom from both the Huns and
the Visigoths.  There is also some conjecture that the Cursades were actually an attempt to
re-establish the flow of pepper and other spices to Europe form the Middle East.

As for a 'Pepper War' in particular, the idea sounds familiar, but I can't recall one off the top
of my head.

William de Grandfort

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Through teeth of sharks, the Autumn barks.....and Winter squarely bites me.


	
		
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