Along the Spice Trail
The Egyptians mummified their dead with cumin, the Chinese burnt cloves to commune with the spirit world, and some medieval Europeans believed nutmeg was the only cure for the Plague…
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Sunday, December 7, 2025
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Discovering Early Man: The Olduvai Gorge
There is a piece of Africa where mankind first emerged in the world – the Olduvai Gorge known as the ‘Cradle of Mankind’. It was in this area that Louis Leakey discovered the skull of theNutcracker Man, which dates back to over 1.7 million years old.
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Beautiful Warrior: The African Masai Tribes
The lives of the Masai centres around cattle herding. They believe God entrusted the cattle to the Masai people, and wealth is measured in number of cattle.
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The Journey of Spices
Spices conjure images of tempting culinary art, fascinating travels and bitter struggles for supremacy. Expressions like variety are the spice of life and sugar and spice and all that is nice illustrate how spellbound were people of letters about the fascination of spices.
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A Global Guide To Coffee Tasting
Coffee primarily grows within a belt thirty degrees north and south of the equator, between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. Within this belt, more than eighty countries grow great coffee throughout Asia, Africa and the Americas.
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