• 2011
The Spice Trail

Summary Kate Humble travels to the places where various spices grow and tells the history of the spices. Very interesting and a lot is learned. View more details

  • 2011

The Spice Trail

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Kate Humble

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7.2

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Feb 16, 2011

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Lion Television

Summary Kate Humble travels to the places where various spices grow and tells the history of the spices. Very interesting and a lot is learned. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Feb 16, 2011

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Lion Television

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Episode 1 • Feb 16, 2011
Pepper and Cinnamon
Kate Humble retraces the steps of 15th-century explorers as she sets out on a spice trail that takes her to India and Sri Lanka, the birthplaces of pepper and cinnamon. She begins her travels on India's 'Spice Coast', where she uncovers the story of pepper, once known as black gold and now the most consumed spice in the world. She does the pepper dance to shake the berries from their stalk, meets farmers fighting back against a disease that is devastating pepper crops, and is taught the centuries-old secret language still used by the traders who wheel and deal in the spice. From India, Kate heads south to Sri Lanka, the land of cinnamon - a place shrouded in mystery to Europeans until the Portuguese accidentally landed on its shores. She attends the spectacular Buddhist festival, or Perahara, which celebrates local resistance to the invaders, and takes part in the delicate process of harvesting the spice and making a cinnamon quill. Finally, she witnesses the crucial make-or-break negotiations of local farmers trying to sell their crops.
Episode 2 • Feb 23, 2011
Nutmeg and Cloves
Kate Humble embarks on a journey around the fabled spice islands of eastern Indonesia in search of two spices that launched epic voyages of discovery, caused bloody wars and shaped empires - nutmeg and cloves. These two spices, grown on an archipelago of tiny volcanic islands, drew European explorers in search of unbelievable wealth, but also led to massacres of local people and the decimation of their culture. Kate meets the people who have rebuilt their lives and communities around the cultivation and trade of nutmeg and cloves, takes her place on one of the fastest production lines in the world, and discovers how the battle for these two spices led to the beginning of the British Empire in North America.
Episode 3 • Mar 02, 2011
Vanilla and Saffron
Journey from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco to the plains of Spain to discover the world's most expensive spice, saffron before crossing the Atlantic to Mexico in search of vanilla, a spice discovered by Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes.
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