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Spice. The History of a Temptation
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- Nombre de pages384
- FormatePub
- ISBN978-0-307-49122-0
- EAN9780307491220
- Date de parution10/12/2008
- Protection num.Adobe DRM
- Taille3 Mo
- Infos supplémentairesepub
- ÉditeurVintage
Résumé
In this brilliant, engrossing work, Jack Turner explores an era-from ancient times through the Renaissance-when what we now consider common condiments were valued in gold and blood. Spices made sour medieval wines palatable, camouflaged the smell of corpses, and served as wedding night aphrodisiacs. Indispensible for cooking, medicine, worship, and the arts of love, they were thought to have magical properties and were so valuable that they were often kept under lock and key.
For some, spices represented Paradise, for others, the road to perdition, but they were potent symbols of wealth and power, and the wish to possess them drove explorers to circumnavigate the globe-and even to savagery. Following spices across continents and through literature and mythology, Spice is a beguiling narrative about the surprisingly vast influence spices have had on human desire. Includes eight pages of color photographs.
One of the Best Books of the Year: Discover Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle
For some, spices represented Paradise, for others, the road to perdition, but they were potent symbols of wealth and power, and the wish to possess them drove explorers to circumnavigate the globe-and even to savagery. Following spices across continents and through literature and mythology, Spice is a beguiling narrative about the surprisingly vast influence spices have had on human desire. Includes eight pages of color photographs.
One of the Best Books of the Year: Discover Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle
A propos de Jack Turner