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。
发表于2025-03-22
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很不错的书,以香料为线索,展示了西方的历史风情。 里面有不少相当有趣的东西,比如中世纪的医学,对香料和食物的研究,和我们的中医何等相似?过去常常看到国人说的西方什么东西,中国“古已有之”,现在看到我们的中医在西方,也是“古已有之”,相当的新鲜。
评分 评分528年前的某一天,哥伦布从船舷上隐约看到前方的陆地,他以为终于到达了他梦想的东方。 一众船员迫不及待的跳下船去寻找香料,他们并不知道自己来到了一个全然不同的世界,还在想着哪棵树是胡椒,哪棵树是桂皮? 现在我们知道哥伦布到达的是美洲,距离他原来的目的地,南辕北辙...
评分 评分杰克·特纳的《香料传奇》解决了关于世界史长久以来的一个疑问:西方人就为了厨房里缺点佐料,至于要到半个地球以外去掀起一场战争么? 对美食的追求大约是全世界人类的一个共性,可是当我们审视从15世纪中到18世纪中的“地理大发现”这段历史时,还是忍不住要惊讶,激励这些...
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A brilliant, original history of the spice trade—and the appetites that fueled it.
It was in search of the fabled Spice Islands and their cloves that Magellan charted the first circumnavigation of the globe. Vasco da Gama sailed the dangerous waters around Africa to India on a quest for Christians—and spices. Columbus sought gold and pepper but found the New World. By the time these fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorers set sail, the aromas of these savory, seductive seeds and powders had tempted the palates and imaginations of Europe for centuries.
Spice: The History of a Temptation is a history of the spice trade told not in the conventional narrative of politics and economics, nor of conquest and colonization, but through the intimate human impulses that inspired and drove it. Here is an exploration of the centuries-old desire for spice in food, in medicine, in magic, in religion, and in sex—and of the allure of forbidden fruit lingering in the scents of cinnamon, pepper, ginger, nutmeg, mace, and clove.
We follow spices back through time, through history, myth, archaeology, and literature. We see spices in all their diversity, lauded as love potions and aphrodisiacs, as panaceas and defenses against the plague. We journey from religious rituals in which spices were employed to dispel demons and summon gods to prodigies of gluttony both fantastical and real. We see spices as a luxury for a medieval king’s ostentation, as a mummy’s deodorant, as the last word in haute cuisine.
Through examining the temptations of spice we follow in the trails of the spice seekers leading from the deserts of ancient Syria to thrill-seekers on the Internet. We discover how spice became one of the first and most enduring links between Asia and Europe. We see in the pepper we use so casually the relic of a tradition linking us to the appetites of Rome, Elizabethan England, and the pharaohs. And we capture the pleasure of spice not only at the table but in every part of life.
Spice is a delight to be savored.
From the Hardcover edition.
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