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A Brilliant, Original History Of The Spice Tradeand The Appetites That Fueled It.It Was In Search Of The Fabled Spice Islands And Their Cloves That Magellan Charted The First Circumnavigation Of The Globe. Vasco Da Gama Sailed The Dangerous Waters Around Africa To India On A Quest For Christiansand Spices. Columbus Sought Gold And Pepper But Found The New World. By The Time These Fifteenth And Sixteenthcentury Explorers Set Sail, The Aromas Of These Savory, Seductive Seeds And Powders Had Tempted The Palates And Imaginations Of Europe For Centuries.Spice: The History Of A Temptation Is A History Of The Spice Trade Told Not In The Conventional Narrative Of Politics And Economics, Nor Of Conquest And Colonization, But Through The Intimate Human Impulses That Inspired And Drove It. Here Is An Exploration Of The Centuriesold Desire For Spice In Food, In Medicine, In Magic, In Religion, And In Sexand Of The Allure Of Forbidden Fruit Lingering In The Scents Of Cinnamon, Pepper, Ginger, Nutmeg, Mace, And Clove.We Follow Spices Back Through Time, Through History, Myth, Archaeology, And Literature. We See Spices In All Their Diversity, Lauded As Love Potions And Aphrodisiacs, As Panaceas And Defenses Against The Plague. We Journey From Religious Rituals In Which Spices Were Employed To Dispel Demons And Summon Gods To Prodigies Of Gluttony Both Fantastical And Real. We See Spices As A Luxury For A Medieval King

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