Başlık:
Cumin, camels, and caravans : a spice odyssey
Yazar:
Nabhan, Gary Paul.
ISBN:
9780520267206
9780520956957
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
xiv, 305 pages : illustrations some color ; 23 cm.
Seri:
California studies in food and culture ; 45
California studies in food and culture ; 45.
İçerik:
Aromas emanating from the driest of places -- Caravans leaving Arabia Felix -- Uncovering hidden outposts in the desert -- Omanis rocking the cradle of civilization -- Mecca and the migrations of Muslim and Jewish traders -- Going east: merging the spice routes with the Silk Roads -- Selling your wares where the sun goes down -- Building bridges between continents and cultures -- From China to Africa: a steady stream of spice traders -- The beginning of the end: Vasco da Gama and the dubious age of discovery -- The drawbridge across the Eastern ocean.
Özet:
Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family's history as spice traders, as well as travel narratives, historical accounts, and an ethnobotanical exploration of spices and their uses, Nabhan describes the critically important roles that Semitic peoples and desert floras had in setting the stages for globalized spice trade. Traveling along four prominent trade routes-the Silk Road, and the Frankincense Trail.
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Arıyor... | Kitap | EKOBKN0010397 | 382.456645 NAB 2014 | Arıyor... |