Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants by Wolfgang Schivelbusch

Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants

Wolfgang Schivelbusch

256 pages • paperback • 1980

7 editions

nonfiction food and drink history informative medium-paced
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From the extravagant use of pepper in the Middle Ages to the Protestant bourgeoisie's love of coffee to the reason why fashionable Europeans stopped sniffing tobacco and starting smoking it, Schivelbusch looks at how the appetite for pleasure tran...

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