Indulgence - Around the World in Search of Chocolate - Hardcover

Richardson, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316860956 ISBN 13: 9780316860956

Publisher: Little, Brown, 2003

Synopsis

The food of the gods has never had a greater appeal among mortal women - and most men - the world over. As a foodstuff, chocolate has been swooned over endlessly in print, but Paul Richardson's study offers to take the subject into whole new realms. Using a melange of travel narrative, historical writing and literary gastronomy, he discovers a substance that still has much to say about the joys and agonies of our human debt to pleasure. In his history of one of mankind's ruling passions, Paul Richardson concludes that, despite the wholesale debasement of a once-sacred substance, chocolate has not entirely lost its mysterious capacity to bewitch.

About this title

From the Publisher:

From Willy Wonka to Ferrero Rocher, chocolate is embedded in our culture as perhaps no other foodstuff. And although it has been swooned over endlessly in print, Indulgence takes the subject into entirely new realms. In a pleasurable mélange of travel narrative, historical writing, and literary gastronomy, Paul Richardson discovers a substance that still has much to say about the joys and agonies of our human debt to pleasure. In this whimsical chronicle of one of mankind’s ruling passions, he concludes that, despite the wholesale debasement of a once–sacred substance, chocolate has lost none of its mysterious capacity to bewitch. Paul Richardson is one of Britain’s leading food historians.

About the Author:

Paul Richardson won critical acclaim for 'Our Lady of the Sewers' and 'Cornucopia; A gastronomic tour of Britain'. He is fast-becoming one of Britain's leading food-history writers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0316860956
• ISBN 13: 9780316860956
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320