[Sca-cooks] History of Spices?

[Jim and Andi]

Thank you everyone! My amazon wish list just got even longer.

Madhavi

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>>My go-to resource for history and identification of spices is A 
>>Historical Dictionary of Indian Food by KT Achaya, but it was 
>>published in 1998. Any newer sources for spice and herb identification and
history out there?
>>
>>Madhavi
>>Trimaris

I'm a fan of Andrew Dalby's "Dangerous Tastes: The Story of Spices",
published in 2002. It is not all inclusive, but includes all sorts of
wonderful stories that people have made up over the millennia about where
spices come from.

I not too long ago got "Cumin, Camels, and Caravans: A Spice Odyssey" by
Gary Paul Nabhan. It was both interesting and frustrating. He begins with
the very ancient incense routes from the Arabian Peninsula and travels
through many cities on several continents to track many spices through their
trade depots. It was mostly anecdotal, and while i liked the anecdotes, i
also longed for some more systematized and analytical sections.

>I have found Gernot Katzer's Spice pages useful, especially when trying 
>to find various names for a particular spice, and how various names are 
>related.  (It has moved recently, if you have an old bookmark, you may 
>want to update it).
>
>http://gernot-katzers-spice-pages.com/engl
>
>Sharon

Thanks, Sharon, for this news. Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages is my go-to
resource for herbs and spices. Photos of the plants and the aromatic parts,
botanical names, names in dozens of languages, some history.

Urtatim al-Qurtubiyya
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