The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice
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Description
Author: Krondl, Michael
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pub Date: 2007
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Book: Good. Binding tight. No marks, tears, bends or folds. Dust Jacket: Good. Very light edge wear. The whole thing, book and jacket, appear untouched.
Notes: Venice, Lisbon, and Amsterdam. The empires that, in their single-minded pursuit of spice(s), changed the Western diet and “set in motion the first great wave of globalization.” Pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, anise, allspice. I bet you have every one in your spice drawer/rack/cabinet.
