This episode author and food writer Eleanor Ford shares 10 things you need to know about the ancient spice trails including how spices were used as currency, medicine and in worship and the formation of the routes led to them being adopted into cuisines all over the world.

Olive is celebrating it’s 20th birthday this year so to mark the occasion we are re-releasing 20 of our favourite podcast episodes over the next month. Listen again to some old favourites or discover unheard episodes as we dive deep into the back catalogue. And don’t forget there are more than 400 podcast episodes in the archive – just head to olivemagazine.com to find out more!

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