Ancient Cuisine, Dance, Fashion, Music, Painting & Sculpture of the Land Silk Roads
This is a huge research project that will take years to build even a solid foundation, but the journey of a thousand miles beings with a single step, and so below are a few are a few humble efforts...
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Cuisine
Did you know that in 410 AD, when the Visigoths captured Rome, they demanded 3,000 pounds of peppercorns as ransom?"
http://www.silkroadspices.ca/history-of-spice-trade
http://www.silkroadspices.ca/history-of-spice-trade
An army marches on its stomach as the Romans used to say, and perhaps its true that "the way to any man's heart is through his stomach." Some wisdom is eternal and the ancient Silk Roads were renowned for primarily trade, and spices were some of the most valuable commodities they traded.
These spices included cinnamon from India, saffron, peppers, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, and legions of others.
These spices included cinnamon from India, saffron, peppers, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, and legions of others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_trade
http://en.unesco.org/silkroad/sites/silkroad/files/knowledge-bank-article/the%20trade%20in%20spices.pdf
http://en.unesco.org/silkroad/sites/silkroad/files/knowledge-bank-article/the%20trade%20in%20spices.pdf