Beschrijving
This tale of one of the world’s favourite foods draws upon botany, archaeology, socio-economics and culinary history to provide a complete history of chocolate. The book, which also includes quotations and old recipes, presents the facts of chocolate’s pre-Spanish history.
Cultivated by slaves, consumed by the elite, paid out as a tribute to conquerors, this tale of one of the world’s favourite foods draws upon botany, archaeology, socio-economics and culinary history to provide a complete history of chocolate, beginning 3000 years ago in the jungles of Mexico. The book also includes quotations and old recipes,
