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The Spice Trail

20111 Season60m episodes

Documentary

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Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

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Kate Humble goes on the trail of some of the world's most valuable spices revealing their history, trade, mythology and usage.

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Not available to stream in United States yet. It is in United Kingdom.

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Director: Paul Sapin
Status: Ended
First aired: Feb 17, 2011
Network: BBC Two
Studio: Lion Television, BBC

Time to finish

3 hrs

3 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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Cast

Kate Humble

Herself - Presenter

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SERIES

The Spice Trail

20111 Season60m episodes

Documentary

Your rating

Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

About

Kate Humble goes on the trail of some of the world's most valuable spices revealing their history, trade, mythology and usage.

Where to watch

Region

Not available to stream in United States yet. It is in United Kingdom.

Episodes

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E1 · Airs Feb 17, 2011 · 1h 0m
Pepper and Cinnamon
The first episode sees Kate Humble retraces the steps of fifteenth century explorers as she heads for India and Sri Lanka, the birthplaces of pepper and cinnamon. On India’s spice coast, she tells the story of pepper, the most consumed spice in the world. She does the pepper dance to shake the berries from their stalks and meets farmers fighting a disease that is destroying crops. In Sri Lanka, the story moves to cinnamon and she learns how the spice is harvested and cinnamon quills are made. She also witnesses the negotiations of local farmers trying to sell the crops they rely on to make their living.
E2 · Airs Feb 24, 2011 · 1h 0m
Nutmeg and Cloves
Indonesia is the setting for the second episode and the spices covered are nutmeg and cloves. These two spices, grown on an archipelago of volcanic islands, drew European explorers in search of wealth but also led to massacres of local people and the decimation of their culture. Kate Humble meets the people who rebuilt their lives and communities around nutmeg and cloves and discovers how the battle for these spices led to the beginning of the British Empire in North America.
E3 · Airs Mar 3, 2011 · 1h 0m
Vanilla and Saffron
The final episode takes in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and the plains of Spain for the world’s most expensive spice, saffron, before crossing the Atlantic to Mexico in search of vanilla. In the Atlas Mountains, she joins a local saffron farmer and his family to harvest their crop. In Spain, she joins a blind tasting to sort out the genuine from the fakes and meets the man who tests the DNA of saffron. In Papantla, the birthplace of vanilla, she meets the Totonac, the original guardians of the spice. She witnesses a fertility dance and comes face to face with the people determined to keep Mexican vanilla alive in the face of competition from other producers

Details

Director: Paul Sapin
Status: Ended
First aired: Feb 17, 2011
Network: BBC Two
Studio: Lion Television, BBC

Time to finish

3 hrs

3 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Cast

Kate Humble

Herself - Presenter

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