Books read, February-March 2022

It looks like my cross-poster plugin has broken again, dammit. If a second version of this post shows up late and sans a cut tag, my apologies.

I got through a rather startling number of books the last two months. Cut for significant length.

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New Worlds: Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice

How much would the contents of your kitchen spice cabinet be worth five hundred years ago? The New Worlds Patreon turns its attention to the outsized importance of herbs, spices, and other seasonings in the economic and political history of the world. Comment over there!

(originally posted at Swan Tower: https://is.gd/k8EZeG)