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Auteur(s) : Nabhan, Gary Paul (1952-....)
Titre(s) : Cumin, camels, and caravans [Texte imprimé] : a spice odyssey / Gary Paul Nabhan
Publication : Berkeley : University of California press, copyright 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-305 p.) : ill. en coul. ; 23 cm
Collection : California studies in food and culture ; 45
Lien à la collection : California studies in food and culture
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 279-292. Index
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 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. His stories, recipes, and linguistic
analyses of cultural diffusion routes reveal the extent to which aromatics such as
cumin, cinnamon, saffron, and peppers became adopted worldwide as signature ingredients
of diverse cuisines. Cumin, Camels, and Caravans demonstrates that two particular
desert cultures often depicted in constant conflict--Arabs and Jews--have spent much
of their history collaborating in the spice trade and suggests how a more virtuous
multicultural globalized society may be achieved in the future
Sujet(s) : Épices -- Industrie et commerce -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
382.413 8309 (23e éd.) = Épices (commerce international) - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780520267206. - ISBN 0520267206 (rel.). - ISBN 9780520956957 (erroné). - ISBN
0520956958 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46565102k
Notice n° :
FRBNF46565102
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Table des matières : Aromas emanating from the driest of places ; Caravans leaving Arabia Felix ; Uncovering
hidden outposts in the desert ; Omanis rocking the cradle of civilization ; Mecca
and the migrations of Muslim and Jewish traders ; Going east: merging the spice routes
with the Silk Roads ; Selling your wares where the sun goes down ; Building bridges
between continents and cultures ; From China to Africa: a steady stream of spice
traders ; The beginning of the end: Vasco da Gama and the dubious age of discovery
; The drawbridge across the Eastern ocean.
