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Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Maps

Spices in The Age of Discovery

Columbus’s Conception of The Atlantic And The Indies

Vasco Da Gama’s Route, 1497–1499

Route of Magellan’s Circumnavigation, 1519–1522

Introduction: The Idea of Spice

Part I: The Spice Race

1: The Spice-Seekers

The Taste that Lavinched a Thousand Ships

Christians and Spices

Debate and Stryfe Betwene the Spanyardes and Portugales

The Scent of Paradise

Part II: Palate

2: Ancient Appetites

The Aromanauts

Of Spiced Parrot and Stuffed Dormice

Spice for Trimalchio

Decline, Fall, Survival

3: Medieval Europe

Flavours of Cockayne

Salt, Maggots and Rot?

The Regicidal Lamprey and the Deadly Beaver

Keeping up with the Percys

Part III: Body

4: The Spice of Life

The Pharaoh’s Nose

Abbot Eberhard’s Complaint

Pox, Pestilence and Pomanders

5: The Spice of Love

Whan Tendre Youthe Hath Wedded Stoupyng Age

Hot Stuff

Spice Girls

Afterword, or How to Make a Small Penis Splendid

Part IV: Spirit

6: Food of the Gods

Holy Smoke

God’s Nostrils

Odours of Sanctity

Old Age, New Age

7: Some Like it Bland

St Bernard’s Family Tiff

Filthy Lucre

Epilogue: The End of the Spice Age

Sources and Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Praise

Copyright

About the Publisher