Pepper: A History of the World's Most Influential Spice - Softcover

Marjorie Shaffer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250048664 ISBN 13: 9781250048660

Publisher: St Martin's Griffin, 2014

Synopsis

The perfect companion to Mark Kurlansky's Salt: A World History, Pepper illuminates the rich history of pepper for a popular audience. Vivid and entertaining, it describes the part pepper played in bringing the Europeans, and later the Americans, to Asia and details the fascinating encounters they had there. As Mark Pendergrast, author of Uncommon Grounds, said, After reading Marjorie Shaffer's Pepper, you'll reconsider the significance of that grinder or shaker on your dining room table. The pursuit of this wizened berry with the bite changed history in ways you've never dreamed, involving extraordinary voyages, international trade, exotic locales, exploitation, brutality, disease, extinctions, and rebellions, and featuring a set of remarkable characters.

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Review:

This is more than the story of a spice...Get ready for a sweeping ride through history. David Oshinsky, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Polio: An American Story. After reading Marjorie Shaffer's Pepper, you'll reconsider the significance of that grinder or shaker on your dining room table. Mark Pendergrast, author of Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World Pepper was once as critical a commodity as oil. Marjorie Shaffer weaves a delightful history of the Indian Ocean and the South Seas. --Various

About the Author:

MARJORIE SHAFFER has written for The New York Times, The Financial Times, and Popular Science magazine. She was a business reporter for Reuters and a former Knight science journalism fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A graduate of Brown University, she received a Master of Science degree in biology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is currently a science writer and editor at New York University School of Medicine. She lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1250048664
• ISBN 13: 9781250048660
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320