The biography of spices / Ellen Rodger.
- 作者： Rodger, Ellen
- 其他題名：
- How did that get here?
- 出版： New York : Crabtree Pub. Co. ©2006.
- 叢書名： How did that get here?
- 主題： Spice trade , History , Spices , Spice trade--History--Juvenile literature. , Spices--Juvenile literature.
- ISBN： 0778724840 (rlb) 、 9780778724841 (rlb) 、 0778725200 (pbk.) 、 9780778725206 (pbk.): NT$318
- 一般註：Includes index.
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- 系統號： 005690620 | 機讀編目格式
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Make a voyage to the ancient spice islands and discover how empires were made from the growth and sale of spices. This amazing new book examines the hidden history and geography behind those tiny bottles in the kitchen. Exciting text and historic images explain to children how spices inspired explorers to seek new trade routes in earlier centuries, and how spices have been used to cure the sick, flavor foods, and make perfume.
摘要註
Provides a history of aromatic food flavorings, chronicling the evolution of international trade in these commodities, as well as describing the harvesting of spices including cloves and cinnamon.
內容註
What are spices? -- Geography: from whence they came -- How spices grow -- Growing other spices (non-exotics) -- The ancient spice trade -- Frankincense and myrrh -- Spices of discovery -- Age of empire -- U.S. traders -- A spice farm -- The spice market today -- Glossary/index.