Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants by Wolfgang Schivelbusch, David Jacobson

Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants

Wolfgang Schivelbusch, David Jacobson

237 pages first pub 1980 (editions)

nonfiction food and drink history informative medium-paced
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From the extravagant use of pepper in the Middle Ages to the Protestant bourgeoisie's love of coffee to the reason why fashionable Europeans stopped sniffing tobacco and starting smoking it, Schivelbusch looks at how the appetite for pleasure tran...

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