One of the earliest known and most widely used spices, pepper, the “King of Spices”, is indigenous to Kerala and was exported in large quantities from the beginning of the historical spice trade. Pepper was more expensive than gold in olden days and was globally accepted as a symbol of wealth, affluence and luxury. Pepper […]
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Spice Garden of India
India has been renowned as Asia’s spice hub from the ancient times. Indian spices were the most sought after and were valuable even more than gold, as they were more difficult to procure. Thus, India exercised total monopoly over spices in the ancient period. India’s trade in spices is coloured with a larger-than -life succession […]
