The spice shelf Cinnamon, clove, vanilla, cardamom: the apple pie is seasoned from the Indian Ocean. Each spice has its own coast, its own passage across the water, and a recipe that brings it back to the apple.
The bark three empires fought over, still peeled by hand on one coast of one island
Sri Lanka's south-west coast
Unopened flower buds that made Zanzibar rich and still scent the east coast of Madagascar
The Maluku Islands; grown around the ocean on Zanzibar, Pemba, the Comoros and Madagascar's east coast
A Mexican orchid, made a crop by a twelve-year-old on Réunion in 1841
The Gulf coast of Mexico; grown on Réunion and, above all, on the north-east coast of Madagascar
Native to the Western Ghats, drunk in Arabian coffee, grown most of all in Guatemala
The Cardamom Hills of Kerala, in India's Western Ghats
The vine that drew Rome's silver and Vasco da Gama's ships to the Malabar Coast
The Malabar Coast and the Western Ghats of Kerala
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