| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxiv, 352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages[311]-334) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the idea of spice -- I. The spice race -- 1. The spice seekers -- The taste that launched a thousand ships -- Christians and spices -- Debate and stryfe between the Spanyardes and Portugales -- The scent of paradise -- II. Palate -- 2. Ancient appetites -- The aromanauts -- Of spiced parrot and stuffed dormice -- Spice for Trimalchio -- Decline, fall, survival -- 3. Medieval Europe -- The flavors of Cockayne -- Salt, maggots, and rot? -- The regicidal lamprey and the deadly beaver -- Keeping up with the Percys -- III. Body -- 4. The spice of life -- The pharaoh's nose -- Abbot Eberhard's complaint -- Pox, pestilence, and pomanders -- 5. The spice of love -- "When tendre youthe hath wedded stoupyng age" -- Hot stuff -- Spice girls -- Afterword ; or, How to make a small penis splendid -- IV. Spirit -- 6. Food of the gods -- Holy smoke -- God's nostrils -- Odors of sanctity -- Old age, new age -- 7. Some like it bland -- Saint Bernard's family tiff -- Filthy lucre -- Epilogue : the end of the spice age. |
| Subject |
Spices -- History.
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Cooking (Spices) -- History.
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Spice trade -- History.
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Spices -- history.
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Cooking -- history.
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| ISBN |
0375407219 alkaline paper |
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9780375407215 alkaline paper |
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