on the podcast The ancient spice trail

Nutmeg and conflict

utmeg is a spice with a powerful, bloody history. It became so sought after that, in 1667, a tiny island called Rhun in Indonesia, where nutmeg originally grew, was traded for Manhattan, when New Amsterdam became New York. It was it was an exchange between the British and the Dutch who were circling their empires of power, and nutmeg was deemed