Wolfgang Schivelbusch,David Jacobson
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 transformed the social structure of the Old World. Illustrations.
History,Nonfiction,Food and Drink,Food,Sociology,History,Food History,Cultural,Food and Drink,Food Writing,Food and Drink,Cooking,Academic,College,Science
Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants