The true history of chocolate
3rd ed.
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Author
Contributions
- Coe, Michael D. - Contributor
Publication
2013 - Thames & Hudson, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
70,000 words, Guess
Page Count
280 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27147339M
- ISBN-139780500290682
- ISBN-100500290687
- OCLC Control Number847481520
- Library of Congress Control Number2012939687
Classifications
- DDC641.337409
- LCCTX
Description
The story begins some 3,000 years ago in the jungles of Mexico and Central America with the chocolate tree, Theobroma Cacao, and the complex processes necessary to transform its bitter seeds into what is now known as chocolate. This was centuries before chocolate was consumed in generally unsweetened liquid form and used as currency by the Maya, and the Aztecs after them. The Spanish conquest of Central America introduced chocolate to Europe, where it first became the drink of kings and aristocrats and then was popularized in coffeehouses. Industrialization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries made chocolate a food for the masses, and now, in our own time, it has become once again a luxury item.
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