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050	0	0	_aTX819.S24 _bW55 2001
082	1		_a641.6383 WIL _2
100	1		_aWillard, Pat
245	1	0	_aSecrets of saffron : _bthe vagabond life of the world's most seductive spice _c/ Pat Willard.
260			_aBoston _b: Beacon Press _c, c2001.
300			_a225 p. _c; 22 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
520	3		_aThere 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.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aCooking (Saffron)
650		4	_aSaffron (Spice)
942			_cMO
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