Tastes of Paradise : a social history of spices, stimulants, and intoxicants / Wolfgang Schivelbusch ; translated from the German by David Jacobson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schivelbusch, Wolfgang, 1941-2023.

Contributor:

Jacobson, David, 1955- translator.

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Drinking customs.

Drug abuse.

Spices.

Manners and customs.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

[2], xiv, 236 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Distribution:

New York : Division of Random House, Inc.,

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, [1992]

Contents:

Preface

1. Spices, or the Dawn of the Modern Age

2. Coffee and the Protestant Ethic

3. Chocolate, Catholicism, Ancien Régime

4. Tobacco: The Dry Inebriant

5. The Industrial Revolution, Beer, and Liquor

6. Rituals

7. Drinking Places

8. The Artificial Paradises of the Nineteenth Century

Afterword to the American Edition.

Notes:

Translation of: Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft published by Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich in 1980.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-[237]).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0394579844 :

OCLC:

24702170