Tastes of Paradise by Wolfgang Schivelbusch

Tastes of Paradise

Wolfgang Schivelbusch

236 pages first pub 1980 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced

Description

It began with pepper and other spices, like cinnamon and nutmeg, some eight hundred years ago. Then came coffee, tea, and chocolate, followed by alcohol and opium--all articles of pleasure people in the Western world craved in order to escape from...

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Moods

informative 100%
funny 25%
reflective 25%

Pace

medium 75%
slow 25%

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