An exotic taste. The allocation of value in exotic groceries - the Low Countries, ca. 1250-1750.

The project will conduct a long-term study of the way in which four exotic groceries with divergent trajectories (pepper, ginger, grains of paradise, and tea) were perceived of as desirable by contemporary consumers and observers. The research project integrates perspectives from economic, social and cultural history to draw out the long-term continuities and changes in the behaviour and mentality of European consumers towards global commodities, and the (material) world itself.

Keywords:EXOTIC GROCERIES, LOW COUNTRIES, CONSUMER HISTORY

Disciplines:Economic history, History