Stewart Lee Allen - In the Devils Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food  

Acknowledgments

I first want to thank my editor at Ballantine, Dan Smetanka, for all his insight and patience, and Jennifer Hengen and Neeti Madan at Sterling Lord Literistic. Grovels to Jeff Left Jones Harris for his devoted research into the nature of absinthe. Special gratitude to everyone who contributed recipes to the booktheir names are mentioned in the relevant sectionsand those scholars who have become specialists in a variety of fields, in particular Stanley Kaplan, Frederic Simoons, the writers at Petit Propos Culinaire , Piero Camporesi, and many others, without whose work researching a book like this would have been pure hell. Im sure at times Ive misunderstood their thoughts, and I apologize in advance. All mistakes are mine. A variety of people were helpful in many ways, including David Lindsey, Zarela Martinez, Jerry Feldman, Jean-Louis Palladin, Michael Ginor, Robert Darnton, Zata Vickers, David Kileast, George Faison, Christene Gabriele, John Surinde, Bill Hudders, John the rickshaw driver, Annabel Bentley, Andy Tomassi, Troy and Paula Allen (not to mention Jackson), Pio, the staff at New Yorks Veselka Restaurant and at Williamsburgs Girdle Factory. Particular thanks to Allison Dickens for her forbearance. My especial gratitude to the staffs of the following institutions: the British National Library in London, the Indian National Library in Calcutta, the private Buddhist library in Dharamsala, Londons Guild Library, Columbia University, New York University, the French National Archives, the archives of the Mairie of Paris, and various Peruvian witchdoctors. I owe a special debt to the staff at the Humanities Library in Manhattan, one of the most efficient gulags Ive had the pleasure to encounter. Bittersweet thanks (and condolences) to the staff at the new French National Librarymay the architect responsible for that edifice from hell be consigned to a special purgatory reserved for those who put ego before function. I suppose the will call section of his library would do in a pinch.

But above all, my deepest thanks and buckets of love to Nina J., toast-eater and literary wunderkind, who made this book so much better than I ever could have.

Also by Stewart Lee Allen

The Devils Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Stewart Lee Allen is also the author of The Devils Cup:
A History of the World According to Coffee, which was published
in more than six countries. He was born in California and
has lived in Calcutta, Paris, Katmandu, and Sydney.
He lives in Brooklyn.

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