Tastes of Paradise
Author: Schivelbusch, Wolfgang
ISBN: 9780679744382
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 07 Sep 1993
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
ISBN: 9780679744382
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 07 Sep 1993
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
