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Bet the last time you bit into a ginger snap you took it entirely for granted, not for a minute pausing to reflect on how for thousands and thousands of years human beings have been enjoying that same flavour: the zing and heat of ginger.
Ginger has a longer history than most spices known to us today. And as Anna McNamee found out when she met Andrew Dalby, a food historian and the author of Dangerous Tastes - this is largely because our forebears quickly discovered just how easy ginger root is to transport over long distances and then transplant. Dangerous Tastes - The Story of Spices (British Museum Press, ISBN: 0 7141 2720 5, 拢16.99).
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