Apart from delicious food, spices also bring to mind adventures. Many of the most exciting voyages and modem history were made to conquer the spice trade and the race to become its master. The colonization of the America and Asia had its roots in spice trade. In 1492, Columbus went West to find India and pepper, but ran into America and the Chilli’.- Vasco-dogama, six years later, went around Africa to reach Kozhikode, the home of pepper. These voyages ended the very profitable trade that the Arabs and Romans had built up over the centuries. They set the stage for a new world.
