Spice
The History of a Temptation
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 t…
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- ISBN: 978-0-375-70705-6
- EAN: 9780375707056
- Produktnummer: 1503959
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Abbildungen: Farb. Abb.
Über den Autor
Jack Turner was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1968. He received his B.A. in Classical Studies from Melbourne University and his Ph.D. in International Relations from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and MacArthur Foundation Junior Research Fellow. He lives with his wife, Helena, and children in Geneva. Spice: The History of a Temptation is his first book.
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