Travel around the world in slippers? Find the remains of ancient civilizations in your own home? Nothing is impossible. Just open this book and go to the kitchen ... in search of peppers, cinnamon and other spices. Today we season them with daily meals and drinks. And once they were valued more than gold, considered worthy only of the gods and hunted for them, not sparing their lives. Soldiers of Alexander the Great, crusading knights and Spanish conquistadors gathered for the spices, Buddhist monks and Muslim merchants traveled, Roman triremes, Chinese "treasury ships", Chinese "treasure ships", Portuguese caravels, Dutch "holevi ... spices began great geographical discoveries and colonial conquests, the world market emerged and capitalism was born. How hot spices have attracted mankind for thousands of years and why they have lost their value so quickly - in the exciting "Hot Story" by Alexei Mustafin.
