The Forgotten Spices: What if they never disappeared, but were simply no longer transmitted?

For thousands of years, spices shaped civilizations. They were traded across continents, valued like gold, and integrated into daily life for nourishment, healing, and ritual. Yet many of these ancient spices have quietly faded from modern awareness.

Silphium. Costus. Zedoary. Mastic. Grains of Selim.

Once essential to traditional medicine, agriculture, and cultural practices, these plants played a vital role in supporting the body and maintaining balance with the natural world.

The Forgotten Spices is an illustrated ethnobotanical book exploring 20 ancient and forgotten spices through history, culture, and traditional knowledge. Rather than focusing on recipes, this book reveals the deeper role spices played in human societies.

Through an interdisciplinary approach combining ethnobotany, botanical history, and traditional plant knowledge, this book uncovers how spices were used to nourish, protect, and support the body across generations.