Beans: A History
- ISBN-10
- 1845204301
- ISBN-13
- 9781845204303
- Series
- Beans
- Category
- Cooking
- Pages
- 261
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-08-15
- Publisher
- Berg
- Author
- Ken Albala
Description
A lively global history of the bean reveals the lesser-known controversies attributed to the ubiquitous legume, from Pythagoras's opinion that the bean was the seat of the soul to St. Jerome's forbiddance of their consumption by nuns because of his belief about the connections between beans and sin. 10,000 first printing.
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