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The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice (repost)

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The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice (repost)

The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice By Michael Krondl
Publisher: Ball..antine Bo..oks 2007 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 034548083X | PDF | 4 MB

The smell of sweet cinnamon on your morning oatmeal, the gentle heat of gingerbread, the sharp piquant bite from your everyday peppermill. The tales these spices could tell: of lavish Renaissance banquets perfumed with cloves, and flimsy sailing ships sent around the world to secure a scented prize; of cinnamon-dusted custard tarts and nutmeg-induced genocide; of pungent elixirs and the quest for the pepper groves of paradise.