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Spice facts

Your task is to prepare a small booklet (or Powerpoint presentation) on five of your most favourite spices. For each spice you must write a short paragraph. The paragraph should provide answers to the following questions:

  • What countries or region of the world does this spice come from?
  • Where might you look for this spice? On a tree? In the ground? Somewhere else?
  • What is one interesting historical or mythical fact about this spice (e.g., something about trade in this spice or the history of how it was discovered—or an interesting bit of folklore concerning this spice)?
  • What food is this spice commonly used in?
  • What are the medicinal properties of this spice?
  • Include at least one image per spice
  • Include a map


For information and visual resources you may visit the following links:
Spice index
History of spices
Use of spices as medicine
Concise history of spice trade
In-depth history of spice Trade

Encyclopaedia of spices

Click here to print or copy a blank outline map of the world.