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SPICE
Sweet and hot, intoxicating and exploding: The quest for spice has driven man and governments to extremes, impacted the history of medicine, funded empires, and destroyed fortunes.
Join us for an evening dedicated to tales culinary and historical, of intoxication and trade routes, plague and madness, and how the Dutch lost Manhattan in pursuit of nutmeg.
Featuring:
Daen de Leon ~ Introducing Spice: Ancient Spices, Spice Roads and Sake Dean Mahomed
Paige Lawrence ~ The Nutmeg Massacres: the Bloody History of the World’s Numbest Spice
Fredric Lightning Leist ~ Grains of Paradise Lost: How a Delicious Spice Disappeared from the Pantry
Tamar Baskind ~ Spice in the Time of Plague
John Adams ~ Gangs of the High Seas: Down with the VOC
Kaila Angello ~ Hot Hot Hot: Why Our Brain is Seduced by Spice
Advance tickets recommended and appreciated
Odd Salon is an evening series of cocktail hour lectures in San Francisco, featuring short talks illuminating extraordinary and unusual chapters from history, science, art, and adventure.
