The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of Three Great Cities of Spice (Michael Krondl) Fine Dining exciting and often-overlooked cuisine of

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The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of Three Great Cities of Spice (Michael Krondl) Fine Dining exciting and often-overlooked cuisine ofThe Taste of Conquest offers up a riveting, globe trotting tale of unquenchable desire, fanatical religion, raw greed, fickle fashion, and mouthwatering cuisinein short, the very stuff of which our world is made. In this engaging, enlightening, and anecdote filled history, Michael Krondl, a noted chef turned writer and food historian, tells the story of three legendary citiesVenice, Lisbon, and Amsterdamand how their single minded pursuit of spice