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SUMMARY:Saffron: global history\, Cambridge stories - Speaker to be confir
 med
DTSTART:20220611T080000Z
DTEND:20220611T160000Z
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DESCRIPTION:This interdisciplinary symposium seeks to explore the history 
 of saffron cultivation and use – both globally and more locally. It is v
 ery unusual for a crop that flourishes in Crete\, Kashmir and Iran to do w
 ell in Britain\, but from the late-14th century\, Crocus sativus provided 
 a valuable cash crop for smallholders farming in the chalky fields of Camb
 ridgeshire and Essex (centred around Saffron Walden). Some was sent to Lon
 don but much was sold to Cambridge colleges to flavour and ‘gild’ food
 \, and for hygienic and medicinal purposes. Many college gardens also grew
  their own crops.
LOCATION: Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, C
 B3 9DT
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