the spice capital of the malabar coast is cochin, in kerala. it's still today a vibrant port where all sorts of spices are grown and sold. padma lakshmi is there to find out more. >> it's the combination of kerala's climate, hills, and soil that yield the biggest quantity and some of the best spices in the world. black pepper is the king of spices here. it's also known as black gold. [speaking foreign language] not only was it a prosperous commodity, but it used to be given as a treasured gift to visiting dignitaries. and black pepper and white pepper are actually the same thing, they're just picked and treated differently. this black pepper is picked when the corns are still green, and it's laid out on terraces called barbeques, and they dry them in the sun until they get black and shriveled. and it hits... it's much more aromatic than white pepper, and it hits the tip of your tongue. white pepper is the same berry, only it's picked when the berry is red, and it's soaked so that the outer husk is removed, rendering it much milder than the blac

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this report another game another bombing on this one in kerala with the uprising began. the death toll has topped one hundred twenty thousand many of the injured receive only emergency care. our son remains in power and he's considering another term you'll find that depends on to the issue discussed in my own design and secondly that we the people of which of the sun seems just as selfish or december. however the regime has lost control of large parts of the country such as the northern and eastern regions. and it's not making an effort to win them back. so what. meanwhile the rebels recognize that they stand little chance of taking over the capital damascus mosques. the rebels confined to the outskirts of damascus are largely cut off from the six appliance the regime's strategy is to defeat the rebels. like in the town of some old guy truth is running low. all that's left to read as lentils and water. it was luckily giving to the kids what kind of food business we haven't received any bread or up to six months. i we've been eating the same thing for thirty days i've see

kerala, in india. >> it's a fantastic shop, i tell you, it smells just... i literally close my eyes and i could be in india, you know? it's fantastic. today, spices are very much a part of the food of multicultural malaysia, where, amongst others, the chinese, the portuguese, the dutch, and the british have all stopped off. and now malaysia is home to asia's biggest spice farm, nasuha, covering 300,000 acres with 100,000 plants. it exports its organic spices all over the world. i'm going to langkawi to meet shukri, the owner of the celebrated lighthouse restaurant, to have a lesson in malay cooking. one of malaysia's modern day dishes is reflective of its varied past as a spice trader's mecca. and now we're going to make something very special. >> right. >> what are we going to make? >> it's a beef rendang. >> delicious. the key dish includes pounded chili, onions, and lemon grass. >> then the galangal. ginger. then, garlic. you need all the other spices. >> oh, star anise? >> star anise, yeah. >> cinnamon, cloves. >> cinnamon, cloves, flower... >> cardamom

it's got this case meant that although this is what policy is that we come to kerala the students that did so well and their fate is sad. for some strange reason it's in a field day out crowd that to be in this school. not that the baby st kitts. update me see that kind of education. but they can learn today that this is the most important thing is up. if a student is that the court monday. on the school after tasty yet doesn't know what to teach it to say the alice go. it's his hse no sweat that the teacher is saying because the teacher only teaches. in the face that day he can cover that means he can't comprehend this now the weekly activity. it's not a polish student anymore as st is tremendous to the boil foundation is helping a lot of the underprivileged children to make progress in terms of their social mobility. i think that is very important we need to take the first break on a pro then today i'll see you in just few minutes. fan. moon mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm. i mean. in it. chengdu the welcome back to the second segment the space program beyond that i wanna look on the hope

was full to the space is not the space when women should be tested or in your home constituenc in kerala. people want to go to the big city for debate mama. he'll keep what they have a job as a bit on typical in the sense that the of the untied states is both simultaneously coburn than normal in the sense that your most of the sea mist from dish from oven to let many of the girl that is have you been to some of these paved roads up to housing electricity telephones and the internet and saw lots of chat about some difficult. my own constituencies is the capital of kim and get it sooner but for the pope was in the oven. i have a huge bill to folk of the coastline official full cost rivals in the hills and so on. in my constituency. bob and then i would to the best in the areas where a mob of these facilities haven't reached and should reach but you don't want it to britain where he talks about real estate prices that the function of scarcity when nigel speaks about them about to taunts for two debacle makes them and entrusting to us. one of the palms of the country's lenders so scarce beca