Indonesia is the world’s largest producer of nutmeg, responsible for more than 70% of global output. The tropical climate of ...

Nutmeg was so lucrative that Europeans fought for market dominance for hundreds of years. In the early 1600s, the Dutch controlled the trade of nutmeg by capturing all but one of the Banda Islands.

Here’s the vice and the nice on this captivating spice. Double Agent Nutmeg from the tropical evergreen plant, native to the Banda Islands of Indonesia, is actually a combo spice.

Now a Thanksgiving staple, nutmeg used to be worth its weight in gold. The spice, originally grown only on the island of Banda Rhun, was so attractive to the Dutch East India Company that it ...

Nutmeg was so lucrative that Europeans fought for market dominance for hundreds of years. In the early 1600s, the Dutch controlled the trade of nutmeg by capturing all but one of the Banda Islands.

Though it is hard to tell by visiting the Bandas today, these miniscule islands played a pivotal role in global economic history. That’s because of what grows on them: nutmeg. For centuries, the ...

In the Banda Islands, two soldiers who slept under a nutmeg tree were said to have awakened with hangovers and two other soldiers were said to have gone half-mad after eating five nutmegs.

They’d planted their flag on the islands at the start of the 1600s, building forts, importing workers to harvest and process nutmeg, and torturing and murdering anyone who got in their way ...

Arab traders dealt in nutmeg during the middle ages, relying on the sole supply of the spice, from Indonesia’s Banda island. The trade was subsequently dominated for a time by the Dutch during ...

One of the world’s most coveted territories during the days of Christopher Columbus, the spice-laden Banda Islands fell off the travel map long ago. But real adventurers still seek them out.