THE REAL ROMANCE OF CRUISING
“You’ve never tasted nutmeg until you’ve tasted nutmeg from Grenada,” Budhi Thakur tells me as he picks up a handful of fresh seeds in the spice market of Grenada, a Caribbean getaway also known as the Spice Island. Not only are the seeds intoxicatingly fragrant, they’re wrapped in a red casing that that looks like hand-carved filigree, so beautiful you could imagine them used as beads on a necklace.
In fact, the locals here do just that, stringing nutmeg onto necklaces along with other spices that are grown on this verdant island — cinnamon, turmeric, allspice and
