An 8-foot-long wooden map of Indonesia spans a wall just beyond the entrance of Indo Spice on West Passyunk ... an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands that range from Southeast Asia into ...

The Portuguese, however, were finding the Spice Islands bittersweet ... envisaged “an unending map, forever scrolling up over further horizon”, with a cartographic revolution “literally ...

In the 1600s, colonizers from the Netherlands, who took control of the Spice Islands in what is now Indonesia, added cardamom and white pepper to the main ingredients to create a similar ...

Mace is a warming spice derived from Myristica fragrans, an evergreen known as the nutmeg tree. Native to the Banda Islands, aka the Spice Islands, in Indonesia, it’s the only tree that grows ...