Spices

• Aggarwal, Bharat B. and Debora Yost. Healing Spices: How to Use 50 Everyday and Exotic Spices to Boost Health and Beat Disease .Stirling, 2011.
  
  
• Fish sauce used to date Pompeii destruction: Researchers analyzed the town's last batch of the pungent seasoning -- msnbc (29 September 2008)
  
  
• Humans Relish Food Spiced with … Fungicide?
  -- Peter N. Spotts, Christian Science Monitor (13 August 2008)
  
  
• Milton, Giles. Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or, the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Change the Course of History. NY: Penguin, 2000.
  
  
• Sherman, P.W. and J. Billing. 1999. Darwinian gastronomy: Why we use spices. BioScience 49 (6): 453-463.
  
  
• Spices: Time Line -- Vigyan Prasar (VP)
  
  
• Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne. A History of Food. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons/Blackwell 2009.

"The Mullus" Harvesting pepper.
Illustration from a French edition of The Travels of Marco Polo.
date unknown
Paris, Biblioteque Nationale