{"product_id":"cumin-camels-and-caravans-9780520267206","title":"Cumin Camels and Caravans","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTraveling along 4 prominent trade routes - the Silk Road, the Frankincense Trail, the Spice Route, and the Camino Real, this book 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Richly embroidered with detail, Cumin, Camels, and Caravans by scholar Gary Paul Nabhan is part history, part geography, part cookbook, and part travel memoir... Interspersed with recipes from various stops on historical spice routes, Nabhan discusses the botany, linguistic history, and trade history of each substance, but far from being dry accounts, they bring the wonder of many ingredients we now view as commonplace into focus; Nabhan's painstaking research has not eclipsed an evident natural knack for storytelling.\" Saveur \"Heady historical and cultural study of ancient trade routes... Nabhan adds pungent pinches of botany and gastronomy.\" Nature \"Gary Paul Nabhan weaves a fascinating story.\" Santa Fe New Mexican\/Pasatiempo \"Nabhan is the ideal travelling companion. With an ancestry that stretches back to the spice-trading Nabheni tribe of Oman, Nabhan is by profession an ethnobotanist and food writer with a clutch of culinary history books under his belt. And he wears his erudition lightly. Although the book is referenced like an academic tome, it reads like a detective story - albeit one with generous pinches of exotic smells and alluring flavours thrown in. Spiced locusts, anyone?\" History Today\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  List of Recipes  List of Spice Boxes   Introduction: The Origin of \"Species\"  1. Aromas Emanating from the Driest of Places  2. Caravans Leaving Arabia Felix  3. Uncovering Hidden Outposts in the Desert  4. Omanis Rocking the Cradle of Civilization  5. Mecca and the Migrations of Muslim and Jewish Traders  6. Merging the Spice Routes with the Silk Roads  7. The Flourishing of Cross-Cultural Collaboration in Iberia   8. The Crumbling of Convivencia and the Rise of Transnational Guilds  9. Building Bridges between Continents and Cultures  10. Navigating the Maritime Silk Roads from China to Africa  11. Vasco da Gama Mastering the Game of Globalization  12. Crossing the Drawbridge over the Eastern Ocean   Epilogue: Culinary Imperialism and Its Alternatives  Acknowledgments  Notes  Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402848543063,"sku":"9780520267206","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520267206.jpg?v=1730481672","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cumin-camels-and-caravans-9780520267206","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}