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:

Nick Malgieri 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:

Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xiv, 236 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

[First Vintage Books edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., [1993]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Spices, or the dawn of the modern age

Coffee and the Protestant ethic

Chocolate, Catholicism, ancien régime

Tobacco: the dry inebriant

Industrial Revolution, beer, and liquor

Rituals

Drinking places

Artificial paradises of the nineteenth century.

Notes:

"First Vintage Books Edition, July 1993."

Translation of: Das Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft.

Contains afterword to the American edition (p. 227-228).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236).

Local Notes:

Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.

ISBN:

067974438X :

9780679744382

OCLC:

27034685

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