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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. There is a lot of interesting anecdotes about spices, their history, and uses, but this is not at all a rigorous study, but a very idiosyncratic view which excludes about the same number of facts as it includes and includes complete speculation as fact. ( ) A fascinating tale of the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. The author's family lineage dates back to the time they were spice traders in the Arabian peninsula. Frankincense was discussed very knowledgeably and was a fascinating story in itself. Nabhan writes of how trading in spice and precious plant products predates the Christian era (CE) of records. His work and those of his colleagues, Gene Anderson, Paul Buell (an ethnobotanist and a food historian, respectively) have credibly demonstrated that the uncanny similarities between recipes in disparate parts of the world point to a cuisine-based dissemination of knowledge. Nabhan's book often wanders from point to point and back again, occasionally devolving into arcane aspects of history that may not interest the casual reader. However, there was much to gain from reading the book and certainly new insights about how Asian and North American centres of origin for specific crops came to be so widely dispersed. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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