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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2018
- ISBN
- 9781250163202
- Book Title
- Devil's Dinner : a Gastronomic and Cultural History of Chili Peppers
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Item Length
- 8.6 in
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- Cooking, Social Science
- Topic
- Specific Ingredients / Vegetables, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), History
- Item Weight
- 13.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.7 in
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
125016320X
ISBN-13
9781250163202
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13038733154
Product Key Features
Book Title
Devil's Dinner : a Gastronomic and Cultural History of Chili Peppers
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Specific Ingredients / Vegetables, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), History
Publication Year
2018
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Cooking, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
13.6 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2018-022094
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"In The Devil's Dinner , Stuart Walton serves up a scorching culinary and cultural history of how the chili pepper spread from Latin America throughout the world, leaving a blistering heat trail in its wake. It is certainly ironic that hot peppers evolved to produce a natural defense that now attracts chefs and masochistic contestants the world over. Used as both aphrodisiac and chemical weapon, chili peppers have had an outsize impact for their small size." --Mark Pendergrast, author of Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World, "In The Devil's Dinner , Stuart Walton serves up a scorching culinary and cultural history of how the chili pepper spread from Latin America throughout the world, leaving a blistering heat trail in its wake. It is certainly ironic that hot peppers evolved to produce a natural defense that now attracts chefs and masochistic contestants the world over. Used as both aphrodisiac and chemical weapon, chili peppers have had an outsize impact for their small size."--Mark Pendergrast, author of Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World "Chilies have stormed the world. In this engaging history, Stuart Walton deftly balances their cultural links to manliness, evil, and sex against their transformation of the world's gastronomies via bowls of chile con carne, searing Indian curries, spicy Thai condiments, paprika-laced goulash, and little bottles of hot chili sauce."--Rachel Laudan, author of Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History "A brilliant look at how, beside and under the worldwide economic colonial engine of the spice trade, the more easily grown chili pepper spread throughout the world not with money, wars and food fads, but with searing heat and gustatory affection. Though we find ourselves at a debauched stage of chili history, with peppers engineered for their inedible heat and sriracha ubiquity, this story of how we got here is blazingly fascinating." --Tom Nealon, author of Food Fights & Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste "I would really like to avoid cliches, so I won't describe Stuart Walton's book as spicy or hot. What I can say is that every object deserves a biography - and a biographer - and Walton and the chili pepper do each other great service in a tale that's part cultural adventure, part culinary exploration, and completely entertaining." --Dan Koeppel, author of Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World "[A] fascinating overview of the cultural and culinary changes wrought by a fiery little fruit 'that was only telling human beings that it didn't want to be eaten.'"-- Publishers Weekly, Praise for Out of It :"An insightful overview of humanity's historical and cultural attachment to various intoxicants. . . . It deserves a prominent place in the emerging discussion reshaping understanding and policies regarding intoxication and the use of drugs and alcohol." - Kirkus Reviews (starred)"Walton is particularly, and convincingly, engrossing, an elegant and forceful stylist." - The Guardian, "In The Devil's Dinner , Stuart Walton serves up a scorching culinary and cultural history of how the chili pepper spread from Latin America throughout the world, leaving a blistering heat trail in its wake. It is certainly ironic that hot peppers evolved to produce a natural defense that now attracts chefs and masochistic contestants the world over. Used as both aphrodisiac and chemical weapon, chili peppers have had an outsize impact for their small size." --Mark Pendergrast, author of Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World "Chilies have stormed the world. In this engaging history, Stuart Walton deftly balances their cultural links to manliness, evil, and sex against their transformation of the world's gastronomies via bowls of chile con carne, searing Indian curries, spicy Thai condiments, paprika-laced goulash, and little bottles of hot chili sauce."--Rachel Laudan, author of Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History
Dewey Decimal
633.84
Synopsis
Stuart Walton's The Devil's Dinner looks at the history of hot peppers, their culinary uses through the ages, and the significance of spicy food in an increasingly homogenous world. The Devil's Dinner is the first authoritative history of chili peppers. There are countless books on cooking with chilies, but no book goes into depth about the biological, gastronomical, and cultural impact this forbidden fruit has had upon people all over the world. The story has been too hot to handle. A billion dollar industry, hot peppers are especially popular in the United States, where a superhot movement is on the rise. Hot peppers started out in Mexico and South America, came to Europe with returning Spanish travelers, lit up Iberian cuisine with piri-piri and pimientos, continued along eastern trade routes, boosted mustard and pepper in cuisines of the Indian subcontinent, then took overland routes to central Europe in the paprika of Hungarian and Austrian dumplings, devilled this and devilled that... they've been everywhere The Devil's Dinner tells the history of hot peppers and captures the rise of the superhot movement., Stuart Walton's The Devil's Dinner looks at the history of hot peppers, their culinary uses through the ages, and the significance of spicy food in an increasingly homogenous world. The Devil's Dinner is the first authoritative history of chili peppers. There are countless books on cooking with chilies, but no book goes into depth about the biological, gastronomical, and cultural impact this forbidden fruit has had upon people all over the world. The story has been too hot to handle. A billion dollar industry, hot peppers are especially popular in the United States, where a superhot movement is on the rise. Hot peppers started out in Mexico and South America, came to Europe with returning Spanish travelers, lit up Iberian cuisine with piri-piri and pimientos, continued along eastern trade routes, boosted mustard and pepper in cuisines of the Indian subcontinent, then took overland routes to central Europe in the paprika of Hungarian and Austrian dumplings, devilled this and devilled that... they've been everywhere! The Devil's Dinner tells the history of hot peppers and captures the rise of the superhot movement.
LC Classification Number
SB307.P4W35 2018
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- 0***0 (63)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseAs described was a great value and one of the few books I was missing iN my set as a hardcover. Great value. It looks brand new and I am very Happy with the enIRE EXPERience. The seller took the precautions of having it shipped quick;y and wrapped to make sure it would not be damaged in shipping. I am very appreciative Of their value and treatment of his book. Will definitely recommend this seller to my book club for their book needs. Nice to know they don’t gouge the price like so many do.
- o***b (122)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseAccurate description and good value. Shipping was a question mark. Not at all sure who the shipping partner was. Link to tracking at USPS provided no updates for more than 10 days, only that the book had been picked up. Perhaps the cross country transit is just super slow. I was relieved when the product finally arrived.
- c***i (741)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseMy book came not in the way described- I mentioned it to Zoom Books (Seller), who promptly addressed the situation and gave me options on how to proceed...which I was NOT expecting. These days, exceptional Customer Service can be a bit of a rarity- I MUST say, that, HANDS DOWN, the Integrity, Alacrity and Speed involved in making me happy re: my purchase was OUTSTANDING! Zoom Books has won a FOREVER CUSTOMER- I shall endeavor, whenever I can, to purchase from THEM- YOU SHOULD TOO! A+++ & BEYOND!