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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Griffin Publishing, Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.
ISBN-10
1250048664
ISBN-13
9781250048660
eBay Product ID (ePID)
216861239
Product Key Features
Author
Marjorie Shaffer
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History: Specific Subjects
Type
Textbook
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
California
Content Note
Includes 5 Black & White Maps Plus One 8 Page Colour Insert
Author Biography
MARJORIE SHAFFER has written for The New York Times, TheFinancial 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.