| The Biography of Spices Contributor(s): Rodger, Ellen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0778724840 ISBN-13: 9780778724841 Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $27.54 Product Type: Library Binding - Other Formats Published: October 2005 Annotation: 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 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology - How Things Work | Are Made - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature - Flowers & Plants - Juvenile Nonfiction | History - Exploration & Discovery |
| Dewey: 382.413 |
| LCCN: 2005019023 |
| Series: How Did That Get Here? |
| Physical Information: 0.32" H x 8.72" W x 11.06" (0.87 lbs) 32 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 103196 Reading Level: 7.6 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 1.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This work is 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. |