“Whilst the food we eat nowadays has much to be grateful to the likes of Marco Polo, Alexander the Great and Vasco De Gama, who would have introduced the tangy flavours of South Africa’s Rainbow Cuisine on his way around the Cape of Good Hope to India, Arabic cuisine, with spices of cinnamon, cloves, saffron and ginger was a lot more enterprising than Western cooking at the time. The medley of colours that the spices offered the food had mystical meanings to the Arabs” FoodSpicesFood HistoryAlexander The GreatMarco PoloVasco Da GamaCape Of Good HopeArabic CuisineRainbow Cuisine Book:Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe