In the Devil's Garden

A Sinful History of Forbidden Food
by Stewart Lee Allen

Food keeps us alive and yet throughout history people have demonized certain edibles - and potable! A wonderful writer, Stewart Lee Allen organizes his story around the traditional seven deadly sins, but he has so much fun covering this topic that he includes many more vices than that. Ranging across many periods of human history and many cultures, he gives us the deep background on how malignant meanings were attached to comestibles like the potato, black beans, cocoa, poppies, and of course the maleficent tomato.

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