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Tea, Coffee & Chocolate: How We Fell in Love with Caffeine
Melanie King
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Description for Tea, Coffee & Chocolate: How We Fell in Love with Caffeine
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 176 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: WBXN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 119 x 179 x 19. Weight in Grams: 222.
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 unattractive? On the other hand, a cup of chocolate was supposed to have exactly the opposite effect on the drinker’s sex life and physical appearance. These three beverages arrived in England in the 1650s from faraway, exotic places: tea from China, coffee from the Middle East and chocolate from Mesoamerica. Physicians, diarists and politicians were quick to comment on their supposed benefits and ... Read more
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 unattractive? On the other hand, a cup of chocolate was supposed to have exactly the opposite effect on the drinker’s sex life and physical appearance. These three beverages arrived in England in the 1650s from faraway, exotic places: tea from China, coffee from the Middle East and chocolate from Mesoamerica. Physicians, diarists and politicians were quick to comment on their supposed benefits and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
221g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851244065
SKU
V9781851244065
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Melanie King
Melanie King is the author of Secrets in a Dead Fish (2014) and Can Onions Cure Ear-ache? (2012).
Reviews for Tea, Coffee & Chocolate: How We Fell in Love with Caffeine
‘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
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Oxford Today
‘This nicely produced small book ... Read more