Willard, Pat <br/><br/>
Secrets of saffron :  the vagabond life of the world's most seductive spice 
/ Pat Willard. 
 - Boston  : Beacon Press  , c2001. 
 - 225 p.  ; 22 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/> There are few words as evocative as saffron. Over thousands of years it has perfumed the halls of Crete's palaces, made Cleopatra more alluring, and driven crusaders and German peasants to their deaths. While spices that drove adventurers to the ends of the earth, such as cinnamon, mace, and ginger, have become commonplace, saffron remains tantalizingly exotic. Nothing more than the dried stamens of the autumn-flowering purple crocus, it might as well be fairy dust. Resistant to modern horticultural technology, the fragile blossoms must still be gathered by hand from the ancient fields of Iran, Greece, Italy, southern France, and Spain. Secrets of Saffron is the story of this extravagant rover. 
<br/><br/><br/>English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780807050088 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cooking (Saffron)<br/>Saffron (Spice)
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TX819.S24  / W55 2001 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>641.6383 WIL