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    The true history of chocolate / Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe.

    • Title:The true history of chocolate / Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe.
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    • Author/Creator:Coe, Sophie D. (Sophie Dobzhansky), 1933-1994.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Coe, Michael D.
    • Published/Created:London : Thames & Hudson, 2013.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Chocolate--History.
    • Edition:3rd ed.
    • Description:280 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
    • Summary:The story begins some 3,000 years ago in the jungles of Mexico and Central America with the chocolate tree, The obroma 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.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-275) and index.
    • ISBN:9780500290682 (pbk)
      0500290687 (pbk)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. One Tree of the Food of the Gods
      ch. Two Birth of Chocolate: Mesoamerican Genesis
      ch. Three Aztecs: People of the Fifth Sun
      ch. Four Encounter and Transformation
      ch. Five Chocolate Conquers Europe.
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