本部纪录片由美女主持人凯特·翰博尔带我们踏上这令人“神魂颠倒”的香料之旅。此次发现之旅，将解答香料是如何塑造出现代世界的。主持人凯特将到访香料的一些异域发源地，并且走遍全球去发现这些香料是如何走上我们餐桌的。凯特将访问一些以香料为生的人们，并跟随最早的那批香料探索者们的脚步，向我们娓娓道来香料背后的故事。共分三集：第一集胡椒和肉桂，第二集肉豆蔻与丁香，第三集香草与藏红花。我们喜爱的佳肴中充斥着这些异国的配料，香料对饮食起到了变革作用，如今香料可在每个厨房的橱柜中找到，但是当年寻找这些美妙香味的过程，改变了历史的发展轨迹。 你知道，整个世界都爱香料。
香料之路 (季节 1)
Pepper and Cinnamon 0.0
播出日期: 2011-02-17
运行时间: 60 min
概述: The first episode sees Kate Humble retraces the steps of fifteenth century explorers as she heads for India and Sri Lanka, the birthplaces of pepper and cinnamon. On India’s spice coast, she tells the story of pepper, the most consumed spice in the world. She does the pepper dance to shake the berries from their stalks and meets farmers fighting a disease that is destroying crops. In Sri Lanka, the story moves to cinnamon and she learns how the spice is harvested and cinnamon quills are made. She also witnesses the negotiations of local farmers trying to sell the crops they rely on to make their living.
Nutmeg and Cloves 0.0
播出日期: 2011-02-24
运行时间: 60 min
概述: Indonesia is the setting for the second episode and the spices covered are nutmeg and cloves. These two spices, grown on an archipelago of volcanic islands, drew European explorers in search of wealth but also led to massacres of local people and the decimation of their culture. Kate Humble meets the people who rebuilt their lives and communities around nutmeg and cloves and discovers how the battle for these spices led to the beginning of the British Empire in North America.
Vanilla and Saffron 0.0
播出日期: 2011-03-03
运行时间: 60 min
概述: The final episode takes in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and the plains of Spain for the world’s most expensive spice, saffron, before crossing the Atlantic to Mexico in search of vanilla. In the Atlas Mountains, she joins a local saffron farmer and his family to harvest their crop. In Spain, she joins a blind tasting to sort out the genuine from the fakes and meets the man who tests the DNA of saffron. In Papantla, the birthplace of vanilla, she meets the Totonac, the original guardians of the spice. She witnesses a fertility dance and comes face to face with the people determined to keep Mexican vanilla alive in the face of competition from other producers
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