The Washington Post, July 24th, 2005
A PERFECT RED Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire By Amy Butler Greenfield HarperCollins. 338 pp. $26.95 One day, Amy Butler Greenfield was sitting in a library in Seville, Spain, perusing the cargo manifests of ships of the colonial era, when she noticed how often cochineal was mentioned. Why were the Spanish shipping so much of this special red dyestuff from Mexico? Intrigued by its apparent value, she decided to unearth its history. That Greenfield also comes from a family of dyers made the scholarly detective work all the more appealing to her. The result, A Perfect Re...
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