The Indian Spice Trail
In a special series, Leslie Forbes traces the flavours and people along the old spice routes of India.
1: The Traders of Malabar
"It's about coconut trees, it is about the rivers cradled with peppercorn, it is about beauty." Why in the watery coastal plains of Kerala are there spice merchants from the deserts of the north?
Producer Matt Thompson
BBC BOOK: Leslie Forbes 's book of the series Recipes from the Indian Spice Trail, £16.99