IntroductionWhen you use peppercorns or nutmeg powder, you may rarely think of the ports and fields that lie beyond them. However, these small spices have traveled through time alongside ships waiting ...

Pumpkin spice is all the rage these days. The flavor has become synonymous with fall, and for many people invokes the joy of the changing seasons. What most people don’t realize, though, is that there ...

Museum's new exhibition brings together 240 objects to reveal how trade, navigation and religion connected civilisations ...

For thousands of years, the rise and fall of empires and the global economy were closely tied to something you might not expect: spices. The spice trade began around 1000 BCE, localized to southeast ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Assortment of spiced desserts - JeniFoto/Shutterstock Love it or hate it, pumpkin spice is a seasonal staple in the United States.

It’s sometimes hard to imagine how much of history focused on obtaining things that today seem quite ordinary. Walk into any restaurant, and you’ll see black pepper on every table. For millennia, this ...

Temperatures are cooling and the sun is setting earlier: Fall is on the way. And with it, autumnal goodies like apple cider, pumpkin bread and those all-too-popular pumpkin spice lattes. But before ...

Nearly every major spice brand has its interpretation of Moroccan spice mix. While these products do a decent job at simulating the flavors of Moroccan cuisine, nothing compares to the true deal that ...