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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.... read more

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First Sentence

Nothing could be more common than the salt and pepper on our tables.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Wolfgang Schivelbusch (Author)

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  1. food
  2. food writing
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