If you’ve ever wondered how your kitchen cabinet became a treasure trove of global flavors, you need to look back thousands ...

For many years, the ancient Greeks and ... But the world’s demand for spices grew throughout the Roman era and into the medieval period, defining economies from India to Europe.

As the spice routes and the silk roads opened ... samples the earliest cuisine of India and travels by train to the great ancient capital of South India, Madurai. The film then shows how north ...

The kitchen and certain Indian spices hold significant spiritual and healing properties in Hindu beliefs. Spices like ...

In the historic neighbourhood of Fort Kochi, for example, close to an ancient banyan tree, is India’s oldest church ... plantations growing a variety of spices such as cloves, nutmeg, cardamom ...

KAMAKURA, Kanagawa Prefecture—Mehta Bharat, operating out of a 100-year-old house in this ancient capital outside ... with chaat masala, a spice mix from India. Bharat sometimes touches on ...