True History of Chocolate

Name: True History of Chocolate
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ISBN: 9780500286968

ISBN-10: 0500286965

ISBN-13: 9780500286968

Edition: 2nd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Sophie D. Coe, Michael D. Coe

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"A beautifully written...and illustrated history of the Food of the Gods, from Olmecs to present-day developments."Chocolatier This delightful and best-selling tale of one of the world's favorite foods draws upon botany, archaeology, and culinary history to present a complete and accurate history of chocolate. 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…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 10/29/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



The Tree of the Food of the Gods



The Birth of Cacao: Olmec-Maya Genesis



The Aztecs: People of the Fifth Sun



Encounter and Transformation



Chocolate Conquers Europe



The Source



Chocolate in the Age of Reason (and Unreason)



Chocolate for the Masses


Epilogue: Full Circle


Notes


Bibliography


Sources of Illustrations


Index