Biography of Spices by Ellen Rodger
	List Price:   $8.95 Unit Price:   $7.16 You Save:   $1.79 (20%) ISBN-10:   0778725200 ISBN-13:   9780778725206 Publisher:   Crabtree Publishing Company Series:   How did That Get There? Ser. Edition:   illustrated Category:   Health/Nutrition, Agriculture Pub. Date:   November 2005 Pages:   32 Format:   Perfect Ages:   9 to 10 Grades:   4 to 5
Awards
1999  IACP Crystal Whisk Awards  Winner!  2003  Maryland Children's Book Award  Nominee/Honoree
Subjects
FOOD_JUVENILE LITERATURE
Description/Notes
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. Empires were made from the growth and sale of spices and the age of discovery was lunched in pursuit of them. Existing text and historic images explain to children how spices were used to cure the sick, flavor 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 - ancient peoples and how they used spices, from flavoring and preserving their foods, to the mummification of bodies! - how the Crusades changed European tastes - slavery and the spice trade