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Cumin, Camels, and Caravans: A Spice Odyssey
Gary Paul Nabhan
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Description for Cumin, Camels, and Caravans: A Spice Odyssey
Hardback. Traveling along 4 prominent trade routes - the Silk Road, the Frankincense Trail, the Spice Route, and the Camino Real, this book follows the caravans of itinerant spice merchants from the frankincense-gathering grounds and ancient harbors of the Arabian Peninsula to the port of Zayton on the China Sea to Santa Fe in the southwest United States. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 332 pages, 12 color illustrations, 10 b/w photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: JFCV; WBTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 686.
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 his expertise as an ethnobotanist, Nabhan describes the critical roles that Semitic peoples and desert floras had in setting the stage for globalized spice trade. Traveling along four prominent trade routes - the Silk Road, the Frankincense Trail, the Spice Route, and the Camino Real (for chiles and chocolate) - Nabhan follows the ... Read more
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 his expertise as an ethnobotanist, Nabhan describes the critical roles that Semitic peoples and desert floras had in setting the stage for globalized spice trade. Traveling along four prominent trade routes - the Silk Road, the Frankincense Trail, the Spice Route, and the Camino Real (for chiles and chocolate) - Nabhan follows the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
292
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
California Studies in Food and Culture
Condition
New
Weight
692g
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520267206
SKU
V9780520267206
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About Gary Paul Nabhan
Gary Paul Nabhan is the W.K. Kellogg Endowed Chair for Sustainable Food Systems at the University of Arizona. He is the author of several award-winning books, including Where Our Food Comes From, Coming Home to Eat, Gathering the Desert, and Arab/American.
Reviews for Cumin, Camels, and Caravans: A Spice Odyssey
"Richly embroidered with detail, Cumin, Camels, and Caravans by scholar Gary Paul Nabhan is part history, part geography, part cookbook, and part travel memoir... Interspersed with recipes from various stops on historical spice routes, Nabhan discusses the botany, linguistic history, and trade history of each substance, but far from being dry accounts, they bring the wonder of many ingredients we ... Read more