The Biography of Spices
Will be published approx. on 1. January 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
32 pages
978-0-7787-2520-6 (ISBN)
Description
Empires were made from the growth and sale of spices and the age of discovery was lunched in pursuit of them. Existing text and historic images explain to children how spices were used to cure the sick, flavor foods, and make perfume. Other topics include
- What is a commodity?
- What is a spice?
- where spices originated and where they are grown today
- how different spices are harvested, manufactured, and processed
- ancient peoples and how they used spices, from flavoring and preserving their foods, to the mummification of bodies!
- how the Crusades changed European tastes
- slavery and the spice trade
- What is a commodity?
- What is a spice?
- where spices originated and where they are grown today
- how different spices are harvested, manufactured, and processed
- ancient peoples and how they used spices, from flavoring and preserving their foods, to the mummification of bodies!
- how the Crusades changed European tastes
- slavery and the spice trade
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
Canada
Target group
Children/juvenile
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 289 mm
Width: 215 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
142 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7787-2520-6 (9780778725206)
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Schweitzer Classification