Cumin, Camels, and Caravans by Gary Paul Nabhan: A Spice Odyssey
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Cumin, Camels, and Caravans by Gary Nabhan is a look at our quest for spices across the world, and how the spice trade set the stage for the globalization of today. A spice odyssey, indeed.
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52Teas is known for creating a new tea blend every week. When the 52Teas holiday Kickstarter was announced, the holiday flavours looked too good to pass up.
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Info about tea ceremonies, tea cultivation, and even tea blending and tea recipes: Linda Gaylard’s The Tea Book has it all.
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The Toronto Tea Festival gave a sneak peak of some teas to lucky fans. I was one of them. Let’s look at them and the contest that the Festival is running.
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Mathematical meditation, living spaceships, and unexpectedly brokering a peace between two warring species: a lot happens in “Binti” by Nnedi Okorafor.