Five Items
January 31, 2006
Pepper:
- Earliest traded items culinarycafe.com-speculative
Given as gift (cross-check)
- Indigenous to Rain Forest Southwest India edu.
- Unknown to Europeans – Columbus
Spice Islands
- Too light and Soluble
- Food Sucked – No Refrigeration
Salt:
- Preserving Food
- Saltwater Evaporate 1 ton of coal = 2 tons of salt britishalt.co.uk
- Salt – Religious ceremonies
Salt of Earth
Portrait of Evil & Bad Luck
- Salt Springs
- Tax Salt
- Salt for People
Beer:
- Hops – Grain
- 15th Century – Unhopped – Ale 4% Alcohol
Hopped – Beer
- Ale – Any strong beer
- English – created Brews/Long Sea Voyage
- Workers 2 liters
- Priests 5 liters Hammurabi 2000 BC
Olive Oil:
- Boiling, Pressure, Skimming
- Ancient Greece/Rome – Soap
- Egypt Honey & Olive Oil – Lotion
- 16th Century B.C. – Greek Isles/Mainland
- Trees 2,000 years
- Cook, Shelf-life
- Pure
- Popeye’s Girlfriend
Grain:
- Seed of Grass
- Livestock & Poultry
- 8,000 BC
- Grain Elevators
- Easy to preserve
- Disease – Resistant
- Conditons
History 121, Introduction to European History
History 290/College 260: Great Explorers of the Modern World
History 353: The European Century, 1763-1914