The Spice of Life

Cloves: Nature's Little Nails (1x4)

Date de diffusion: Nov 12, 1983

Traces the origins of cloves from the Spice Island Moluccan culture to its growth as a major Indonesian crop. Describes the many uses of cloves. Once thought to cure the plague, cloves originally grew only in the Moluccans.Learn how Magellans search for these islands in 1519 made him the first voyager around the world, how Moluccan culture suffered destruction by Dutch traders seeking to capture the spice, and how today Zanzibar has become the world's major source of cloves.