The True History of Chocolate (Paperback: Revised and Updated: 280 pages)
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| Author: | Sophie D. Coe, Michael D. Coe, Sophie De Coe |
| Format: | Paperback: Revised and Updated: 280 pages. |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson (10/30/2007) |
| ISBN: | 0500286965 |
| ISBN13: | 9780500286968 |
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Pro Reviews: The True History of Chocolate
...[T]he Coes track a prudent and punctilious path....[T]he lore they offer also includes pleasantly bemusing facts and speculations....A carefully researched biography of chocolate as a pleasure and a product.
Sophie D. Coe died before completing her engaging history of chocolate, which has been finished by her husband. The book covers archaeological information about the presumed use of chocolate from the Olmec to the Aztecs....All of this seems amusingly like our own times, and the Coes tell the story well.
Publisher Notes: The True History of Chocolate
- "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 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.
The second edition draws on recent research and genetic analysis to update the information on the origins of the chocolate tree and early use by the Maya and others, and there is a new section on the medical and nutritional benefits of chocolate. 100 illustrations, 15 in color.
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