Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants

Wolfgang Schivelbusch

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jun 29, 1993 - Social Science - 256 pages

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.

About the author

Wolfgang Schivelbusch was born in Berlin in 1941 and is a German scholar, historian, and author. In 2003 he was awarded the Heinrich Mann Prize of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. He currently lives in New York.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants
• Author: Wolfgang Schivelbusch
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1993
• ISBN: 067974438X, 9780679744382
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Cooking / History; History / Social History; Social Science / Agriculture & Food