Colour : Travels Through the Paintbox Nia Gould the ultimate puddings and cakes

the ultimate puddings and cakes with sections on the silence of cheesecake and biscuits

”—The Wall Street Journal

the child of a goddess—and by all rights their paths should never cross

Philip Marlowe

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Colour : Travels Through the Paintbox Nia Gould the ultimate puddings and cakesPart travelogue, part narrative history, 'Colour' unlocks the history of the colours of the rainbow, and reveals how paints came to be invented, discovered, traded and used. This remarkable and beautifully written book remembers a time when red paint was really the colour of blood, when orange was the poison pigment, blue as expensive as gold, and yellow made from the urine of cows force fed with mangoes. It looks at how green was carried by yaks