[Sca-cooks] black pepper wars

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Samrah 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.  
>
It occurs to me to wonder, are we going to face new spice wars or 
shortages?  What are the spice exports of Sumatra, Indonesia and the 
other Tsunami-torn regions?  Salt water in the water table is said to be 
killing palm trees but it occured to me that it won't do much good for 
other plants either.

Selene