The History and Natural History of Spices

According to the Kama Sutra, what does mixing pepper, long pepper and honey do?

Which of these was the earliest trade route?

What were spices first used for?

When did sugar become a common ingredient in Europe?

Which spice comes from the flower buds of a tree in the Myrtaceae family?

Which of these isn’t a prescription in The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian hieratic scroll?

Which spice was identified in nostrils of the mummy of pharaoh Rameses II? (c. 1200 BCE)

What qualities did Greek physician Dioscorides believe Aniseed did not have?

Which plant appears in Homer’s Odyssey (eighth century BCE) as ‘selinon’?

For the 1483 coronation of Richard III, how much ginger was purchased?