God, the Devil & the Dangerous Spice: Food, Desire & Medieval Europe

Series: The Other Hunger — A History of Food, Sex & Seduction Across Time*Part 3 of 4* The ancient world had no ambivalence about pleasure. The Greeks philosophised it. The Romans industrialised it. Both civilisations built entire cultural architectures around the idea that the body’s appetites — for food, for wine, for desire — wereContinue reading “God, the Devil & the Dangerous Spice: Food, Desire & Medieval Europe”