Sunday, September 7, 2014

Book #5: Pepper: A History of the World's Most Influential Spice by Marjorie Shaffer

Product Details:

Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition (August 5, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1250048664
  • ISBN-13: 978-1250048660

Professional Review from David Oshinsky, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Polio: An American Story: “This is more than the story of a spice…Get ready for a sweeping ride through history." 

Customer Review from Amazon.com: Schaffer has done a good job in giving us a history of pepper. She has researched thoroughly, yet maintained the story in history. One will come away from the book with a better understanding of both the spice and the way in which it shaped history. Schaffer gives enough information to satisfy your curiosity, but leaves enough unsaid to encourage further discovery. This seems to be what a good history book should do.

Based on the reviews, it seems that this book gives the reader a broad, all encompassing history of pepper. 


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