Next Book on My Reading List: The Taste Of Conquest
Michael Krondl, Chef, Author
Michael Krondl is a chef, food writer, and author of The Taste of Conquest, Around the American Table: Treasured Recipes and Food Traditions from the American Cookery Collections of the New York Public Library and The Great Little Pumpkin Cookbook. He has published articles in Good Food, Family Circle, Pleasures of Cooking, and Chocolatier, and has contributed entries to The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America. He lives in New York City...randomhouse.com
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"'The Taste of Conquest' offers up a riveting, globe-trotting tale of unquenchable desire, fanatical religion, raw greed, fickle fashion, and mouthwatering cuisine--in short, the very stuff of which our world is made. In this engaging, enlightening, and anecdote-filled history, Michael Krondl, a noted chef turned writer and food historian, tells the story of three legendary cities--Venice, Lisbon, and Amsterdam--and how their single-minded pursuit of spice helped to make (and remake) the Western diet and set in motion the first great wave of globalization. Sharing meals and stories with Indian pepper planters, Portuguese sailors, and Venetian foodies, Krondl takes every opportunity to explore the world of long ago and sample its many flavors. Along the way, he reveals that the taste for spice of a few wealthy Europeans led to great crusades, astonishing feats of bravery, and even wholesale slaughter.
As stimulating as it is pleasurable, and filled with surprising insights, "The Taste of Conquest" offers a compelling perspective on how, in search of a tastier dish, the world has been transformed."
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The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice
The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 01/03/2010)
"Michael Krondl's new book on the spice trade peeks behind the usual histories of Venice, Lisbon, and Amsterdam and tells a tale that is at once witty, informative, scholarly, and as consistently spicy as its subject. In short, it's delicious! Gary Allen, food history editor at Leite's Culinaria and author of The Herbalist in the Kitchen"
Release Date: 10/28/2008
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- AdrienneJenkins AdrienneJenkins Jul 31, 2009 @ 3:00 pm
- I'm curious about reading Salt as well.
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- ClassyGals ClassyGals Jul 30, 2009 @ 4:09 pm
- Taste of Conquest sounds like interesting reading. Five stars!
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- calicoskies calicoskies Jul 29, 2009 @ 8:30 pm
- Looks like a great book!
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- flighty02 flighty02 Jul 29, 2009 @ 3:34 am
- Another one for my books to read list!
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- spirituality spirituality Jul 28, 2009 @ 5:11 am
- Sounds like a great book. Don't know how you do it, but this one too ends up on my summerschool lensography :) blessed.
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