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In Medieval and Renaissance banquets, exotic spices, including mace and nutmeg, along with the popular cinnamon, were added in large amounts to various dishes.
D-Day: The Soldiers' Story" focuses on the experiences of survivors during Operation Overlord, giving voice to unheard accounts. Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 is a historical narrative that recounts the sacking of Smyrna (modern-day Izmir) and the subsequent population exchange between Turkey and Greece in 1922. After losing his two ships to mutiny and sinking by the Dutch, he fortified the island by erecting forts to overlook approaches from the east.
What we saw running amok in the shadowy corners of the world was two imperial powers vying for conquest.
Born in Buckinghamshire, Milton was educated at Latymer Upper School [2] and the University of Bristol. In 1614 he was accused of purloining company resources and other offences by one dying man named, Edward Langley.
Milton's "Checkmate in Berlin" explores post-war Berlin from 1945 to 1949, focusing on the city's division between the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. Hildegard, the sibyl of the Rhine, wrote down her medical discoveries in 1147, including the pharmaceutical properties of nutmeg. It has been praised for its balanced approach to history and has been published in both Turkish and Greek. One penn'orth of nutmeg in the East Indies went for 50 shillings in London - that's a 60,000 per cent mark-up, I think - so imagine the incentive for greed, treachery, freebooting and murder.
It's also toxic, so I don't recomend trying it without consulting a professional herbalist, but I could see how nutmeg in honey might be helpful to a person without access to a 21st century bathroom medicine cabinet. Russian Roulette" is an historical account of British spies who were sent to Soviet Russia after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, aiming to thwart Lenin's plans. Fashionable French gourmets would bring their own nutmeg graters to add their nutmeg to appropriately improve on a wealthy host's dinner. It is astounding to learn how popular these two spices [nutmeg and mace] were in the 15th-17th centuries, especially when compared to how little they are appreciated today.Giles Milton's books focus on lesser-known stories from history, chronicling the lives of extraordinary people and their exploits in fascinating detail. As you'll have gathered, this is about the spice trade, about which we have some hazy notion ("ah yes, the spice trade") but which repays a closer look. In some places it was hard to read; not because the prose is cumbersome (the book flows well) but simply because it is difficult to imagine that people would do such unspeakable things to each other simply for a few pounds of nutmeg or mace. Such was the popularity of nutmeg well into the 18th Century that Dickens carried around a monogrammed nutmeg grater in his waistcoat. Furthermore, ground nutmeg and pulverized mace rapidly lose their volatile oleoresins, and thus only freshly ground specimens are of major gustatory value.
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