−50%Spice and Sail: The kitchens of the age of exploration
Margaret Endersby · narrated by Louisa Wray
2026
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You will step into the cramped galleys and bustling port kitchens where the modern meal was born. Louisa Wray guides you through the sounds and smells of an era when peppercorns, chilies, tomatoes, and potatoes crossed oceans for the first time, carried by sailors who did not know what they carried. Her voice is measured and warm, like lantern light on a wooden table, pausing over ledger entries and letting spices linger in the air of each sentence. You will hear how a bean crossed an ocean, why the tomato met such long suspicion, and what the revolution in eating actually looked like from the cook's perspective. Settle in and let the voyage unfold.
22 chapters
- 1On the Sources3m
- 2Chapter 1: The Ledger of a New Hunger25m
- 3Chapter 2: What the Revolution Actually Was19m
- 4Chapter 3: The Pepper Before the Pepper22m
- 5Chapter 4: How a Bean Crossed an Ocean16m
- 6Chapter 5: The Chili's Slow Burn18m
- 7Chapter 6: The Tomato's Long Suspicion18m
- 8Chapter 7: The Potato's Paper Trail16m
- 9Chapter 8: Sugar's Brutal Arithmetic18m
- 10Chapter 9: The Vanilla Orchid in a Dutch Cabinet20m
- 11Chapter 10: Maize by Another Name21m
- 12Chapter 11: The Cookbook as Witness21m
- 13Chapter 12: The Apothecary's Kitchen17m
- 14Chapter 13: What Sailors Actually Ate19m
- 15Chapter 14: The Banquet's New Geometry19m
- 16Chapter 15: When a Parish Kept Count23m
- 17Chapter 16: Building a Working Kitchen of the Period22m
- 18Chapter 17: A Method for Reading the Sources16m
- 19Chapter 18: Where the Record Ends15m
- 20What the Record Shows5m
- 21About the Author2m
- 22What to Read Next1m
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