Cumin, camels, and caravans

"Takes the reader on a ... journey across time and space in this look at the ... relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family's history as spice traders, as well as travel narratives, historical accounts, and his expertise as an ethno-botanist, Nabhan describes the critical roles that Semitic peoples and desert floras had in setting the stage for globalized spice trade"--Dust jacket.