Placeholder text

Go to cart

Spice: The History of a Temptation

By Jack Turner

Spice: The History of a Temptation Leisure, Home & Garden

Spice: The History of a Temptation

0 - Used - good
Description
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 
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
384
Release Date:
2005-08-09
Publication Date:
2005-08-09
Publisher:
Vintage
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0375707050
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
363 g
Height:
20.1 cm
Width:
13.3 cm
Thickness:
2.1 cm
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out