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Spice: The History of a Temptation
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| #453652 in Books | Vintage Books | 2005-08-09 | 2005-08-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.75 x5.18l,.84 | File type: PDF | 384 pages | Vintage Books||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| the Romans loved spice, or rather the Romans didn't like spice|By jordan r oost|A low ratio of information to words. Entire pages can be summed up in one or two sentences. The information could have been presented in a more organized way. I found I was confused as to the point the author was making over and over again,... the Romans loved spice, or rather the Romans didn't like|.com |There was a time, for a handful of peppercorns, you could have someone killed. Throw in a nutmeg or two, you could probably watch. There was a time when grown men sat around and thought of nothing but black pepper. How to get it. How to get more. How to c
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 ...
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