True History of Chocolate by Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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- ISBN 10 0500282293
- ISBN 13 9780500282298
- Published Oct 01 2000
- Format Paperback
- Language English
- Publisher Thames & Hudson
Publishers Text
New in paperback! Chocolate...the food of the gods. Delicious indulgence or cause of migraines Aphrodisiac or medicinal tonic Religious symbol or Mesoamerican currency This delightful tale of one of the world's favorite foods draws upon botany, archaeology, socioeconomics, and culinary history to present a complete and accurate history of chocolate.
The story begins three thousand years ago in the jungles of Mexico and Central America with the tree Theobroma cacao and the complex processes necessary to transform its bitter seeds into what is now known as chocolate. Follow chocolate's path from this early date all the way through industrialization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when chocolate became a food for the masses.
