Author: Madison Clinton PetersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology, Doctrinal
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Sanctified Spice, Or, Pungent Seasonings from the Pulpit
Author: Madison Clinton PetersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology, Doctrinal
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The Expository Times
Author: James HastingsThe Expository Times
Author: The United States Catalog
Author: George Flavel DanforthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
Book Description
The United States Catalog
Author: The Thinker
Author: Masters of Achievement
Author: Henry Woldmar RuoffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Proceedings and Addresses
Author: Pennsylvania-German SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Spice
Author: Jack TurnerPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307491226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
In this brilliant, engrossing work, Jack Turner explores an era—from ancient times through the Renaissance—when what we now consider common condiments were valued in gold and blood. Spices made sour medieval wines palatable, camouflaged the smell of corpses, and served as wedding night aphrodisiacs. Indispensible for cooking, medicine, worship, and the arts of love, they were thought to have magical properties and were so valuable that they were often kept under lock and key. For some, spices represented Paradise, for others, the road to perdition, but they were potent symbols of wealth and power, and the wish to possess them drove explorers to circumnavigate the globe—and even to savagery. Following spices across continents and through literature and mythology, Spice is a beguiling narrative about the surprisingly vast influence spices have had on human desire. Includes eight pages of color photographs. One of the Best Books of the Year: Discover Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle
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