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Google Arts and Culture: Indonesian Spices
- lowkey_ 5y agoLove Google Arts and Culture! I always wanted to work there, but seems it's a small team in Paris quite separated from most of Google based on researching on LinkedIn. I'm happy Google has it, and I wish they'd invest more in it. On a side note if anyone wants to learn more about spices and try them, there's a cool startup I recently discovered for it [1] (not affiliated to me). It's been really cool to support local farmers and try new spices while knowing the backstory. [1] https://www.burlapandbarrel.com/ https://www.burlapandbarrel.com/
- dustintrex 5y agoThe history of Indonesian spices is written in blood. The island of Run, once the only place in the world where nutmeg grew, was forcibly depopulated by the Dutch, massacring some 10,000 people in the process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_conquest_of_the_Banda_Islands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_conquest_of_the_Banda_Is...
- packetslave 5y agoWhich is covered on the site under "Banda Islands : Where The Story Began"
- dustintrex 5y agoOoh, good find, here's the link: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/QAVxVli-R3XwZQ https://artsandculture.google.com/story/QAVxVli-R3XwZQ The nutmeg story doesn't cover or link to this though.
- redis_mlc 5y agoIndonesian people have remarkably little animosity after being colonized by the Dutch for about 300 years - basically none. But if you ask about the Japanese WW2 occupation, they call them "cruel." (The US told the Dutch not to re-occupy Indonesia after WW2, essentially giving Indonesia its freedom. This was part of Roosevelt's effort to decolonize most of the globe, and is one of the great legacies of the USA, contrary to current Marxist self-loathing.)