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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 transformed the social structure of the Old World. Illustrations.
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Tastes of Paradise, Wolfgang Schivelbusch
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- Released
- 1993
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- Title
- Tastes of Paradise
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Wolfgang Schivelbusch
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 1993
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 067974438x
- ISBN13
- 9780679744382
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, History, Business, Business & Management, Science, Food, Sociology, Marketing & Sales, Culture and Society, China, Alcohol, Aristocracy, nobility, Beer, Spices, Colonies, Tobacco, Opium
- Original title
- Das Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- 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 transformed the social structure of the Old World. Illustrations.