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Nutmeg, Mace & Clove

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A Whisper of Cardamom
A Whisper of Cardamom

By Eleanor Ford

Published 2024

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You may not have heard of Rhun, a tiny tropical isle in the Banda Sea of Eastern Indonesia where the air hangs thick with fragrance. But you are sure to have heard of the island it was traded for in 1667: Manhattan, New York.

The British and Dutch colonial powers that made this exchange deemed Rhun so valuable because it was home to the nutmeg tree. It was the seventeenth century and the allure and price of spice had reached a dizzying peak. None was more craved than nutmeg. (See my book The Nutmeg Trail for more on the spice trade and the brutal lengths the Dutch went to in commodifying these ridged little kernels.)

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