Spice 在线电子书 图书标签: 飲食文化 Wine/drink/food/etc History
发表于2024-11-22
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杰克·特纳(Jack Turner)1968年生于澳大利亚墨尔本,在墨尔本大学荻古典文学艺术专业学士学位。后获罗兹奖学金在牛津大学学习,并以麦克阿瑟基金会初级研究员身份在那里从事研究,获牛津大学国际关系学博士学位。现与妻子海伦娜及儿子旅居瑞士。《香料传奇》是他的第一本著作。
A history of the trade that controlled the world and left an indelible impression on our taste buds; a sweeping story of avarice, ingenuity and exploration, spanning the globe and the centuries in its epic reconstruction of this magnificent obsession. Spices: for centuries the staple of cuisine, remedies and ritual, they have commanded the highest of prices. To this day, saffron is, per ounce, one of the most expensive commodities known to man. For their sake, fortunes have been made and lost, empires built and destroyed, and new worlds discovered. Astoundingly, in the 17th-century more people died for the sake of cloves than in all the European dynastic wars of the period. However the spice trade dates bank thousands of years before this. Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs depict a merchant fleet sailing south to the Horn of Africa and returning triumphantly with a priceless cargo of cinnamon. Only the story of mankind's infatuation with precious metals can rival the story of spice in scope; and only the history of silver and gold rivals that of spice for its improbable and extraordinary combination of discovery and conquest, heroism and savagery, greed and violence.
本周阅读的书目是《香料创奇:一部由诱惑衍生的历史》,一部将桂皮、胡椒、豆蔻、肉蔻等植物性物质置于历史舞台,解构其背后的跨文化与国际交流历史的著作。在当今普遍视角中,香料无非是不同于油盐酱醋等比较特殊的料理调味品,但是杰克·特纳(Jack Turner)在《香料传奇》一...
评分 评分 评分 评分让我联想起很久以前看过的那部电影,都是以香料作为主角,引发出连绵的故事。 去逛有卖进口食品的超市时,也总爱看那些被密封在小小的瓶子里的各种香料。收获之后以手工细细研磨,从此有了另一种生命。 这本书很适合在午后看得见阳光的房间里,静...
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