Spice The History of a Temptation
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Random House N.Y.
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
09.08.2005
Abbildungen
farbige Abbildungen
Verlag
Random House N.Y.Seitenzahl
384
Maße (L/B/H)
20.9/16/2 cm
Gewicht
381 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-375-70705-6
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
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