Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Spices: “The Spicèd Indian Air” in Shakespeare’s England 29
6. 2. Sugar: “So Sweet Was Ne’er So Fatal” 52
7. 3. Coffee: Eating Othello, Drinking Coffee 80
8. 4. Bizarre Foods: Food, Filth, and the Foreign in the Culinary Contact Zone 107
9. 5. Cannibal Foods: “Powdered Wife” and Other Tales of English Cannibalism 135
10. Coda: Global Foods 163
11. Notes 167
12. Bibliography 187
13. Index 197