Spice: the history of a temptation

The idea of spice

The spice Race

The spice seekers

The taste that launched a thousand ships

Christians and spices

Debate and stryfe between the Spanyardes and Portugales

The scent of paradise

Palate

Ancient appetites

The aromanauts

Of spiced parrot and stuffed dormice

Spice for Trimalchio

Decline, fall, survival

Medieval Europe

The flavors of Cockayne

Salt, maggots, and rot?

The regicidal lamprey and the deadly beaver

Keeping up with the Percys

Body

The spice of life

The pharaoh's nose

Abbot Eberhard's complaint

Pox, pestilence, and pomanders

The spice of love

"When tendre youthe hath wedded stoupyng age"

Hot stuff

Spice girls

How to make a small penis splendid

Spirit

Food of the gods

Holy smoke

God's nostrils

Odors of sanctity

Old age, new age

Some like it bland

Saint Bernard's family tiff

Filthy lucre

The end of the spice age.