{"product_id":"b0hffkkvr3","title":"SPICE: Eight Stories of the Flavors That Seasoned Empires (The Materials That Changed The World Book 3)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor a pinch of flavor, the world went to war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe salt, pepper, nutmeg, and sugar sitting in your kitchen cost a few dollars. For most of history, each was worth more than its weight in gold — and men killed, sailed, enslaved, and built empires to control them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSpice , Book Three of Materials That Changed the World, tells eight true stories of the flavors that seasoned empires. Follow a single craving — for something sweeter, saltier, hotter, richer — as it drags fleets across oceans, topples kingdoms, and redraws the map of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInside, you'll discover:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe salt that bought human beings on the trade routes of the Sahara The nutmeg so valuable the Dutch traded away Manhattan to keep the island that grew it — then slaughtered the people who did The sea road to Calicut that pulled Europe into Asia and changed everything The night a harbor was dumped full of tea — and a revolution began The sweetest substance on earth, which built colonies and then burned them down This is history with a taste you already know. Each chapter takes something off your shelf and shows you the ships, warehouses, armies, and empires hidden inside it — flavor as one of the steadiest engines of conquest in all of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEverything here is true. Open your spice rack after reading it and you'll see an atlas of empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you loved Mark Kurlansky's  Salt  and  Cod , or  Sapiens , you'll devour this — the latest in the Materials That Changed the World series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eScroll up, click Buy Now, and taste the real history of your kitchen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52817274896600,"sku":"YSL30178","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0835\/3356\/2072\/files\/717AwIrMJgL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793083611","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmebay.com\/products\/b0hffkkvr3","provider":"BookMebay","version":"1.0","type":"link"}