The true history of chocolate /
"The food of the gods": Delicious indulgence or cause of migraines? Aphrodisiac or medicinal tonic? Religious symbol or Mesoamerican currency? This tale of one of the world's favorite foods draws upon botany, archaeology, socioeconomics and culinary history to present for the first ti...
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New York :
Thames and Hudson,
1996
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Table of Contents:
- Preface / Michael D. Coe
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Ch. 1 The Tree of the Food of the Gods
- Ch. 2. The Birth of Cacao: Olmec-Maya Genesis
- Ch. 3. The Aztecs: People of the Fifth Sun
- Ch. 4. Encounter and Transformation
- Ch. 5. Chocolate Conquers Europe
- Ch. 6. The Source
- Ch. 7. Chocolate in the Age of Reason (and Unreason)
- Ch. 8. Chocolate for the Masses
- Epilogue: Full Circle.