Cover of Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft

Paradies, der Geschmack und die Vernunft

by Wolfgang Schivelbusch

1992 236 pages eng

It began with pepper and other spices, like cinnamon and nutmeg, some eight hundred years ago. Then came coffee, tea, and chocolate, followed by alcohol and opium--all articles of pleasure people in the Western world craved in order to escape from their humdrum lives and heighten their daily enjoyme…

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