24.06.2019 - With the feat already completed, in this last episode called saccharin, we talk about the geopolitics of the trip, and how the world was changed (for better or for worse), until our days: How the world was governed from that moment on by...
10.06.2019 - After a failed incursion in Cape Verde to try to get some food, and after a thousand fatigues and after countless problems and deaths, they finally make it, they complete the first circumnavigation of the world. Elcano and the survivors are...
28.05.2019 - Saffron is made up of threads, filaments that separate, as do the Victoria and the Trinidad in the Spice Islands. While the Trinidad, piloted by Gonzalo Gómez de Espinosa will try to return to the American continent in order to reach Europe...
12.05.2019 - Seven is the number. Finally, Clove is here. The most precious spice that pushed this trip to be accomplished will not be easy to get. Magellan, immersed in an excess of confidence, will face the local chief Lapu-Lapu, in a battle where he...
30.04.2019 - Known by its unmistakable aroma and its unique shape, the sixth episode of “Browsing around the clove” is baptized as star anise. The Armada de Molucca will arrive to The Philippines, (A.K.A Maharlika) They will be greeted by the Rajah...
12.04.2019 - Nutmeg is the name of the fifth episode of “Browsing around the clove”. This ground spice has, like all the other spices, many benefits, but if consumed in excessive amounts, the nutmeg powder may produce allergic reactions, dermatitis, or...
25.03.2019 - Ginger is the name of the fourth episode of “Browsing around the clove”. Navigating through Patagonia, the crew will face some friendly “giants”. Later on, half of the crew organizes a mutiny against Magellan but he will come through...
11.03.2019 - In this third episode called “Cardamom”, Magellan’s crew will reach the American Continent, also known as Abya Yala. In the Brazilian coast, they faced its indigenous peoples, their behaviors and traditions as Stefan Zweig pointed out:...
26.02.2019 - “Mit Pfeffergewicht setzten manche Fürsten und Städte ihre Zölle fest, und wenn man im Mittelalter einen Mann als schwerreich bezeichnen wollte, so schimpfte man ihn einen Pfeffersack. Auf Gold- und Apothekerwaagen wiederum wurden Ingwer und...
11.02.2019 - “Im Anfang war das Gewürz”, In the beginning was the spice, that’s how the author Stefan Zweig starts his book called Magellan. Spices, these tiny ingredients revolutionized the way we eat, and they are present in many of our favorite...
