Spicey Stories My growing up Spice mill Kerala

Spicey Stories

My growing up. . .

Spice mill

Kerala Tea plantation

Chai garam chai!?

Empire and Trade. . .

1892

£ 30 -40 million pounds each year in 1878

• • Food security Pests and diseases Destruction by wildlife Appropriation of rural land Falling commodity prices Access to global market and fair trade Farmers debt. . . suicides

FTAK growing regions. . § § § Fort Cochin Major trading port Portuguese 1498 Dutch 1662 British 1795 -1947 § Port Muzuris Megasthenes, Greek ambassodor mentions Kerala for its spices 5 th Century

4, 500 members 10% women Food security, helping most vulnerable

Seedbank of knowledge 2015

`Elements` pays and buys: cocoa, coffee, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg, mace, black and white pepper, caradamon, tumeric, cashew nuts & coconuts It pays a Fair Trade Premium FTAK uses for: Conversion to organic farming Disaster management fund post monsoon etc Infrastructure; offices and. .

Solar powered electric fencing for protection from elephants. . . !

1 st Indian Restaurant 1810

1. 3 million 1 st World War (Brighton Pavillion) • • • 1⁄4 pound meat (Non-meat eaters received 2 ounces of gur (coarse, unrefined sugar made from sugar cane juice) or sugar or 3 ounces of milk in place of 4 ounces of meat) 1⁄ pound potatoes 8 1⁄ ounce tea 3 1⁄ ounce salt 2 1 1⁄2 pounds atta (flour) 4 ounces dhal (dried lentils, peas or beans which have been stripped of their outer hulls and split) 2 ounces ghee (clarified butter) 1⁄ ounce chillies 6 1⁄ ounce turmeric 6 1⁄ ounce ginger 3 1⁄ ounce garlic 6 1 ounce gur

Spice cupboard at home, 22 jars!! 2016. . Food, medicine, beauty, dyes

Instrumental in India gaining independence from the British Empire “What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and one another”