Spices Online

Description

The Gourmet salt collection includes 11 of the best tasting hard to find salts, they are housed in Pyrex test tubes with all natural cork stoppers. They sit in a handmade wooden base. ---

Features

• You are buying 11 of the finest Gourmet salts available. Housed in Pyrex test tubes
• A perfect gift for any Gourmet. 5 Stars - Unique and Tasty
• Murray River Pink, Cyprus White Flake, Pacific Blue Kosher, India Black - kala Namak
• Bali Pyramid, Apple Wood Smoked, El Salvador - Qab-nab Taab
• Bolivian Sunset, Fleur De Sel, Hawaiian Red Alaea, Bali Coconut and Lime Smoked

Description

A brilliant, original history of the spice trade—and the appetites that fueled it. It was in search of the fabled Spice Islands and their cloves that Magellan charted the first circumnavigation of the globe. Vasco da Gama sailed the dangerous waters around Africa to India on a quest for Christians—and spices. Columbus sought gold and pepper but found the New World. By the time these fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorers set sail, the aromas of these savory, seductive seeds and powders had tempted the palates and imaginations of Europe for centuries. Spice: The History of a Temptation is a history of the spice trade told not in the conventional narrative of politics and economics, nor of conquest and colonization, but through the intimate human impulses that inspired and drove it. Here is an exploration of the centuries-old desire for spice in food, in medicine, in magic, in religion, and in sex—and of the allure of forbidden fruit lingering in the scents of cinnamon, pepper, ginger, nutmeg, mace, and clove. We follow spices back through time, through history, myth, archaeology, and literature. We see spices in all their diversity, lauded as love potions and aphrodisiacs, as panaceas and defenses against the plague. We journey from religious rituals in which spices were employed to dispel demons and summon gods to prodigies of gluttony both fantastical and real. We see spices as a luxury for a medieval king’s ostentation, as a mummy’s deodorant, as the last word in haute cuisine. Through examining the temptations of spice we follow in the trails of the spice seekers leading from the deserts of ancient Syria to thrill-seekers on the Internet. We discover how spice became one of the first and most enduring links between Asia and Europe. We see in the pepper we use so casually the relic of a tradition linking us to the appetites of Rome, Elizabethan England, and the pharaohs. And we capture the pleasure of spice not only at the table but in every part of life. Spice is a delight to be savored.From the Hardcover edition.

There was a time, for a handful of peppercorns, you could have someone killed. Throw in a nutmeg or two, you could probably watch. There was a time when grown men sat around and thought of nothing but black pepper. How to get it. How to get more. How to control the entire trade in pepper from point of origin to purchase. In Spice: The History of a Temptation, classics scholar Jack Turner opens up the whole story of pepper and its kind like a ripe melon. He brings the exotic scents of the East deep into the history of Western culture. Everyone knows a little bit of the story, how the desire to control the spice trade drove Western nations deep into the heart of the Age of Discovery, the Portuguese sponsoring Da Gama's push to India; the Spanish underwriting the many attempts of Columbus to get to India another way. The Western madness for spice was just about peaking in this time, and spice would all too soon become--gasp--common, much like the afterthought condiment it is for so many today. Who thinks twice about pepper any longer? And yet, the history is long and glorious, and the window spice throws open on Western culture yields a glorious view. Jack Turner is a skilled tour guide and story teller. He starts his narrative with the 16th century quest for spice, then loops back into three mains sections of text: Palate, Body, and Spirit. Turner has mined classic and Medieval literature for any and every possible mention of spice and demonstrates how fixated the West became from the time of Augustus in Rome through to relatively modern times. He winds his narrative through the way spice was used in the foods of the wealthy (and puts to sleep the nostrum about rotting food), as a medicine, a sex aid, and as an aromatic channel to the gods of the time and place. He ably demonstrates the constant underlying tension surrounding spice--that it was both attractive and repellent, that it represented fabulous wealth and power for some and, for others, an abhorrence of the exotic East that exists to this day. This is not an easy story to tell. But Turner makes it appear effortless. Pull a chair close to the fire, pour a draught of spiced wine, crack open Jack Turner's Spice and you'll read your way into the wee hours of the night. --Schuyler Ingle

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Play your favorite college fight song with this durable plastic Hot Button.

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• Officially licensed NCAA Collegiate product.
• Fight Song and Slogan
• Battery operated
• Cheer your Team
• Press button

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The salt collection includes 11 Pyrex test tubes with natural cork stoppers. A handmade base from reclaimed shipping pallets.Salts in Collection Number #2 Chardonnay Oak Smoked - Black Hawaiian - Hickory Smoked - Japanese Aguni - Himalayan Pink - Cyprus Flake Black - Sicily "Salt Road" Trapani - Sal del Mar Manzanilla Mexico - Persian Blue Diamond - Alderwood Smoked - Lake Grassmere New Zealand - The wooden base is handcrafted from discarded shipping pallets. Made in USA. Each Test Tube contains .8 to 1.3 Oz of salt depending on the density of each salt. A Great Gift to any Gourmet.

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• Gourmet Salt Collection #2 Includes the following 11 Salts
• Chardonnay Oak Smoked, Black Hawaiian, Hickory Smoked, Japanese Aguni
• Himalayan Pink, Cyprus Flake Black, Sicily - "Salt Road" Trapani
• Sal del Mar - Manzanilla Mexico, Peruvian Pink, Alderwood Smoked
• Lake Grassmere - New Zealand

Description

Use refill in TimeMist Continuous Fan Dispenser and Worldwind Fragrance Dispenser System. Effective for 30 days. Environmentally safe formula contains no VOCs.

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• Assembly Required: No, Effective Duration: 30 Day, Scent: Dutch Apple/Spice
• Sold as 1 each

Description

This six pack includes 6 Hot 'n Spicy Flavor Spice packs and 6 Cure packs so you can give it a try yourself! Hot & Spicy (6 Pack)

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• Made By: Open Country
• Model Number: BJH-6SK
• See Description

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SPICE WORLD - DVD Movie

The Spice Girls have plenty of personality, and that helps make up for the lapses in inspiration that keep their feature debut from being a truly good movie and potential cult piece. As with Richard Lester's Hard Day's Night, Spice World is about a few days in the collective life of the all-female British group; and the banter is suggestively representative of how the Girls all speak to one another. But the value of individual scenes is woefully inconsistent, reaching a low point in a dumb sequence when a gaggle of extraterrestrials hit them up for autographs. Fortunately, the film is full of great people, or in some cases good people doing great things: Richard E. Grant, Roger Moore, Alan Cummings, Mark McKinney, and tons of cameos from the likes of Elton John, Elvis Costello, and Bob Hoskins. You don't have to be 11 years old and female to get some enjoyment out of this movie, but it might help. --Tom Keogh

Description

Introduced in 1996. Fragrance notes: magnolia, lilac, mandarin, peach, nutmeg, sandalwood and vanilla. Recommended use: daytime.

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• Packaging for this product may vary from that shown in the image above
• This item is not for sale in Catalina Island