Spices And The Medieval Imagination

The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2009

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This week it's the seeds and bark that changed the planet. We're talking spices, the stuff of wonderment and avarice in the medieval world with Paul Freedman, author of Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination. It's a St. Augustine, Florida special for Jane and Michael Stern at Saltwater Cowboy's. We talk with Peter Shafer, our Gastrosexual for the month of June. Tea purist Bill Waddington, proprietor of St. Paul's TeaSource, has summer in a glass — iced teas for the lazy at heart, and culinary improv artist Sally Schneider has a brief on the wallflower of the farm stand… the beet.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

July 12, 2008 (originally aired)
June 20, 2009 (rebroadcast)

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1:16.1	Well, today it's a look at why for five centuries spices were the most powerful commodity in Europe.
1:22.8	Yale historian Paul Friedman brings us inside the mindset of that time to understand why spices held such power.
1:30.3	It was far beyond flavorings. His book is Out of the East, Spices and the Medieval Imagination.
1:37.1	Well, we get the last word on iced tea, how to make it, what to do with it from Bill Waddington,
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