Bread of Dreams
5:25 pm in Camporesi, Piero, Europe, Italy, food & drink, history | No Comments
Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe
by Piero Camporesi (1989)
An account on how many people in early modern Europe lived in a state of almost permanent hallucination, drugged by their hunger or by bread adulterated with hallucinogenic herbs.
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