• Foto Number: EPI-123

A pepper buyer in Kozhikode, formerly Calicut, on the Malabar Coast in Kerala. He collects the harvest from smallholders; here, it gradually fills the thick sacks of pepper. In the days of the Spice Route, when pepper was weighed against gold in Europe, ‘pepper sack’ became a derogatory term for wealthy spice merchants. - 1990

• Keywords:
  Asia India Kerala condiment pepper Kozhikode (Calicut) Cardamom Hill Spice Route-E Spice Route