Spice Islands

Japanese expansion throughout the East Indian islands ia the 1930s and 1940s, then anticolonialism and the emergence of the Third World nations, finally wrested control of the Spice Islands from the Dutch. 

Van Gils C, Cox PA. Ethnobotany of nutmeg in the Spice Islands. J Ethnophar-macol 1994 42 117-24. 

The discovery of fennel, cumin and coriander seeds at some ancient burial sites suggests that taste and/or smell was incorporated into human cultural practices very long ago. A few cloves in a charred vessel formd in a settlement on the banks of the Euphrates in Syria have been dated to about ryoo BC and because cloves grew thousands of miles to the east in the Spice Islands, this suggests that NP-rich products were being trade over very long distances at an early stage in human history. ... 

Rosengarten (1969) has presented a very interesting history of spices. In 1492, Christopher Columbus arrived in America while searching for a direct western route to the Spice Islands. Though he did not find the Spice Islands, Columbus brought allspice,... 

Cloves are the flower buds from a tropical tree that can grow to 50 feet in height. The buds are hand-picked in the Moluccas (the Spice Islands) of Indonesia, the East Indies, and the islands of the Indian Ocean, where a tree can yield up to 75 lb of the sun-dried buds we know as cloves. 

You will see why Grenada is called the Spice Island of the Caribbean. 

GRENADA Guests like Morgan Freeman and Jerry Hall escape to the Spice Island, where they bunk at Laluna, a 16-cottage resort that boasts adult sophistication. 

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