Nutmeg is a spice that comes from the seeds of the Myristica fragrans tree, native to the Moluccas Islands in Indonesia. Its use has spread worldwide, not just for its distinctive flavor but also for ...

Spices could only be grown in the tropical East, in the South of China, Indonesia as well as in Southern India and Sri Lanka. In particular, they grew in the Moluccas a chain of mountainous islands in ...

In particular, they grew in the Moluccas or, as they are better known, the Spice Islands. These are a chain of mountainous islands strung out in the Pacific Ocean between Sulawesi (Celebes) and New ...

‘TREES WERE MY TEACHERS,’ wrote the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, and if there is any place on Earth that could say the same of itself, it is Ternate, a tiny island in the archipelago that was once ...

Only after the Portuguese had rounded the southernmost tip of Africa, crossed the Indian Ocean and reached the Spice Islands of Indonesia, and the Spaniards had attained the same goal a few years ...