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The Spice Meridian

An interactive atlas of spice: five thousand years of trade routes on a living map.

Platform
Web browsers, desktop and phone
A dark world map traced with glowing trade routes between Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas.
Notes

Every spice blend is a trade route you can taste. Press play and the map moves through five thousand years of flavour: where each spice grew, who carried it and where it ended up.

Follow one spice and its journey draws itself, hop by hop. A hundred and twenty spices are photographed and profiled, down to the molecules you smell. Mix your own blend and see why it works, or pull a classic apart and watch its ingredients fly home.

A trading game set in the same world, Trading House, is on the workbench.

A shelf of spice photographs, with a profile of black pepper open beside it.