[Sca-cooks] Spicing was Non-Pennsic SCA activities?
Linda Peterson
mirhaxa at morktorn.com
Thu Aug 7 15:27:25 PDT 2008
>> Krondl, Michael. /The Taste of Conquest. The Rise and Fall of the Three
>> Great Cities of Spice/. New York: Ballantine Books, 2007.
This is a wonderful book to read, not just informative but amusing as
well. His description of the path of the spices is interesting. The most
distant, cloves and nutmeg, had a 3000 mile sail just to get to India
where they joined pepper and others before being traded to other shippers
who sailed the spices around through the Red and Arabian Seas. They were
then loaded on camel caravans, to Egyptian Alexandria or Byzantine
Trebizond on the Black Sea then to Constantinople. Then they were picked
up by Venitians, who took them home and redistributed them yet again to
the rest of Europe. Not a short trip.
Mirhaxa
mirhaxa at morktorn.com
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