Secrets of Saffron
Subtitle: The Vagabond Life of the World's Most Seductive Spice
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: May 11, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780807050088
Subjects: History; Cooking / Wine; Cooking; Specific Ingredients - Herbs, Spices, Condiments; Cooking / History; Cookery (Saffron); Saffron (Spice)
Description: Saffron is evocative enough to elicit the most sensuous descriptions. Over thousands of years it has perfumed the halls of Crete's palaces, made Cleopatra more alluring and drive crusaders and German peasants to their deaths. While many once foreign spices like cinnamon, mace and ginger no longer spur adventurers to the ends of the earth, saffrom remains tantalizingly exotic. Resistant to modern technology, the fragile blossoms must still be gathered by hand from the ancient fields of Iran, Greece, Italy, southern France and Spain. Secrets of Saffron is the story of this extravagant rover.