Tea, Coffee & Chocolate
how we fell in love with caffeine
$20.91
- Hardcover
176 pages
- Release Date
9 December 2015
Summary
From the tale of the goatherd whose animals became frisky on coffee berries to a duchess with a goblet of poisoned chocolate, this book, illustrated with eighteenth-century satirical cartoons and early advertisements, tells the extraordinary story of our favourite hot drinks.
Did you know that coffee was recommended as protection against the bubonic plague in the seventeenth century? Or that tea was believed to make men ‘unfit to do their business’ and blamed for women becoming unatt…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781851244065 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1851244069 |
| Author: | Melanie King |
| Publisher: | Bodleian Library |
| Imprint: | Bodleian Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 9 December 2015 |
| Weight: | 224g |
| Dimensions: | 170mm x 110mm |
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Critics Review
‘Melanie King has written a delightful, diminutive stocking filler account of Tea, Coffee and Chocolate, using Bodleian archives. The story of these three beverages, all of which came to England in the mid-seventeenth century, is worth retelling. When I say ‘stocking filler’ I don’t mean slight or under researched, just lovely.’ * Oxford Today *‘This nicely produced small book tells a familiar story, but one which stands the retelling, especially when so intelligently and enjoyably written.’ * Petits Propos Culinaires *
About The Author
Melanie King
Melanie King is the author of Secrets in a Dead Fish (2014) and Can Onions Cure Ear-ache? (2012).
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