Giles Milton
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first heard May 2026
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Just to paint a little picture of the tree, because most people won't have seen one.
They're very, very beautiful.
They look rather like a lemon tree.
And in fact, the nutmeg fruit is this beautiful lemony golden fruit that hangs off the tree.
And it's inside that fruit.
You break open the flesh and inside you have this withered little nut, which is a nutmeg, which is entirely surrounded by a very beautiful, bright red, lacy sort of thing, which is mace, which is very similar in taste and flavour, in fact.
They come from exactly the same fruit, yeah.
The nut is covered in this stuff, yeah, in the mace.
Can you eat it or not?
Nutmeg obviously used in cooking, mace is used in cooking as well.
And of course, the flesh of the fruit in the Bandar Islands is made into sort of jams and marmalades and chutneys and things like that.
So every bit of the fruit can be used.
And it should be said that these six islands in the Bandar Islands, they are entirely, or they were entirely covered in forests and groves of nutmeg trees.
And the smell...
The scent of these trees is quite extraordinary.
So when you're on a boat approaching these islands, hanging in the air is this almost kind of extraordinary perfume.
That pungent smell of nutmeg hangs in the air.
So they're magical places.
But as we will hear, they were also extremely dangerous places.
So yeah, it was about less than one English penny would get you 10 pounds of nutmeg.
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