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

They remain a small but important presence in Kochi, a trading hub on the Kerala coast since ancient times ... In the first century CE, India's spices—especially black pepper and malabathrum ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Just like the well-known Silk Route, there was the Spice Route for ancient trade, where India played a key role, he said. Mrityunjay Bose Last Updated : 11 February 2025, 10:30 IST ...