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Biography of Spices by Ellen Rodger
Intended for ages 8-14, this work explains to children how spices were used to cure the sick, flavour foods, and make perfume. Other topics include: what is a spice; where spices originated and where they are grown; how different spices are harvested, manufactured, and processed; and historical and modern spice trades.This work is for ages 8-14. Empires were made from the growth and sale of spices and the age of discovery was launched in pursuit of them. Exciting text and historic images explain to children how spices were used to cure the sick, flavour foods, and make perfume. Other topics include: What is a commodity?; What is a spice?; where spices originated and where they are grown today; how different spices are harvested, manufactured, and processed; the historical and modern spice trades; ancient peoples and how they used spices, from flavouring and preserving their foods, to the mummification of bodies!; how the Crusades changed European tastes; how the spice trade encouraged explorers and colonies; slavery and the spice trade. |
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| Author(s) : Ellen Rodger | Format : Paperback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0778725200 | ISBN-13 : 9780778725206 |
| RRP : £5.99 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Series Title : How Did That Get Here?
Country Publication : United States
Publication Date : 28/02/2006
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Co,Canada
Page Length : 32mm
Page Size : 280mm