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

history

non-fiction

food

nonfiction

Wolfgang Schivelbusch - 1980

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.

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Food by Waverley Root: An Authoritative and Visual History and Dictionary of the Foods of the World

Waverley Root - 1980

One of the world's leading food authorities shares two hundred delightful essays, as well as shorter entries, on the foods of the world, discussing the history of food, from ancient to modern times, and offering a host of food facts and trivia, accompanied by two hundred illustrations..

One of the world's leading food authorities shares two hundred delightful essays, as well as shorter entries, on the foods of the world, discussing the history of food, from ancient to modern times, and offering a host of food facts and trivia, accompanied by two hundred illustrations.

Gather Ye Wild Things: A Forager's Year

Susan Tyler Hitchcock - 1980

First published in 1980, Gather Ye Wild Things is not a field guide in the strictest sense but rather a meditation on some of the most common and useful plants in North America.

The volume's fifty-two brief essays- each focusing on a particular species or subject during a season in which it is likely to come to the would-be gatherer's attention- touch on culinary, medicinal, and cosmetic uses for wildlings.

Best ofFood-History

1980

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

Food by Waverley Root: An Authoritative and Visual History and Dictionary of the Foods of the World

Gather Ye Wild Things: A Forager's Year

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