Ulli Kulke

Vasco Da Gama
In search of the Spice Islands

What would be our European cooking without chillies, ginger or vanilla? We take these spices for granted, but in the past they were unattainable and hotly sought-after. In search of the Spice Islands some years after Columbus Vasco da Gama detected the sea route to India. The age of discoveries and Portugal's triumphal appropriation of the seas had begun. Texts, photographs and maps let youparicitae in the dangerous, dramatic and world changing journey.