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Jun 2023

44m 29s

Spices, Their HIstories, by Robert O. Fi...

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Let's finish our tour of the sleepy world of spices, learn about grains of paradise (my favorite medieval spice), and reveal the connection between saffron and…crocodiles? Sure, why not.

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