[Sca-cooks] A question about a book

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Martin G. Diehl wrote:
>While Googling, I came across this book ...
>
>	Dangerous Tastes: The Story of Spices
>	by Andrew Dalby
>
>Any comments?  Is it good/bad?
>
>Vincenzo

Ooh, ooh. I love this book. Is it the best most complete story of 
spices? Probably not. But it has a lot of excellent detail, wonderful 
quotes from ancient texts on spices, and it's written really well and 
great fun to read. The author is a noted food scholar.

I recommend it.

Anahita