Spice : The History of a TemptationTurner, Jack
9780500016930
The True History of Chocolate
Sophie D. Coe; Michael D. Coe
ISBN 10: 0500016933 / 0-500-01693-3
ISBN 13: 9780500016930
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 13: 9780500016930
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Hardcover
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Theobroma cacao...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 for the first time a complete and accurate history of chocolate. The story begins some three thousand years ago in the jungles of lowland 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. This was centuries before chocolate was consumed in generally unsweetened liquid form and used as currency by the sophisticated Maya, and the Aztecs after them. The Spanish conquest of Central America introduced chocolate to Europe, where it became first the stimulating drink of kings and aristocrats and then was popularized in coffee-houses. Industrialization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries made chocolate a food for the masses - until its revival in our own time as a luxury item. The True History of Chocolate is the first book to present the real facts of the pre-Spanish history of chocolate - and it does so with great authority, since the authors share an unrivalled knowledge of the history of Pre-Columbian civilizations and their cuisine. We discover how chocolate got its name, how it was used as a medicine, and find that the Spanish learned of chocolate through the Maya, not the Aztecs. From Maya hieroglyphs to kingdom of the Hershey Bar, this is a fascinating history, beautifully told, and enhanced with quotations, illustrations and old recipes - a book for chocolate-loverseverywhere.
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"...[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."
Kirkus, 04/01/1996
Review:"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."
Phoebe-Lou Adams, Atlantic Monthly, July 1996
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