Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants Mother Mary Comes to Me armed only with a keen

armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional

“Thrilling

in decades—not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy

Author/Contributor(s): Montaigne

been kept in solitary confinement

Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants Mother Mary Comes to Me armed only with a keenAuthor 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.