In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Foods by Stewart Lee Allen

In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Foods

Stewart Lee Allen

315 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Among the foods thought to encourage lust, the love apple (now known as the tomato), wormed its way over pastas and into catsup. The morality of this fruit was questioned due to its similarity to a plant called the mandrake, which medieval people ...

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