Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants Mother Mary Comes to Me Author/Contributor(s): Montaigne

Author/Contributor(s): Montaigne

From a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award–winner

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Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants Mother Mary Comes to Me Author/Contributor(s): MontaigneAuthor Contributor(s): Schivelbusch, Wolfgang Publisher: Vintage Date: 6 29 1993 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW 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.