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Cumin, Camels, and Caravans: A Spice Odyssey (Gary Paul Nabhan) Art Nouveau and most vegetables too areGary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own familys history as spice traders, as well as travel narratives, historical accounts, and his expertise as an ethnobotanist, Nabhan describes the critical roles that Semitic peoples and desert floras had in setting the stage for globalized spice