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)
  
  
• Gernot Katzer’s Spice Pages
  
  
• Humans Relish Food Spiced with … Fungicide?
  -- Peter N. Spotts, Christian Science Monitor (13 August 2008)
  
  
• Krondl, Michael. The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice. NY: Ballantine, 2007.
  
  
• Martindale's Nutrition Center Dairy, Meat, Fish, Poultry, Cereals, Fruit, Vegetalbes, Herbs etc.
  
  
• Milton, Giles. Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or, the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Change the Course of History. NY: Penguin, 2000.
  
  
• Nabhan, Gary Paul. Why Some Like It Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2004.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• "Variation in sensation and affect: We live in 'different taste worlds'" --Linda Bartoshuk
  Fifth Lecture of the Nobel Conference 46 Making Food Good Conference -- Gustavus Adolphus College (5-6 October 2010) (archives are available online at <http://gustavus.edu/events/nobelconference/2010/archive.php>)
  
  
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"The Mullus" Harvesting pepper.
Illustration from a French edition of The Travels of Marco Polo.
date unknown
Paris, Biblioteque Nationale