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From JSTOR Daily, September 20:Cloves: The Spice that Enriched EmpiresBehind one humble spice lies a complex history of empires and profit, commodities and globalization.For most of human history, the humble clove, one of the most common
spices in our kitchen cabinets, was one of the rarest in the world.
Plucked from the tropical evergreen trees of the Myrtaceae family, these tiny, sundried
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