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The True History of Chocolate

ISBN: 9780500290682 (PB - E)
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The Definitive Guide to the world's best-loved food, now revised and updated for its third edition The book begins 3,000 years ago in the Mexican jungles and goes on to investigate everything about chocolate - its archaeology, history, botany and even socio-economics. Used as currency and traded by the Aztecs; chocolate arrived in Europe via the Spanish conquistadors, and soon became a favourite drink with aristocrats. By the 19th century, chocolate had lost its mystique, with industrialization making chocolate a food for the masses - until its promotion in our own time as a luxury item.

Sophie D. Coe, an anthropologist and food historian, was the author of America's First Cuisines. Michael D. Coe, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Yale University, is the author of Breaking the Maya Code, The Maya, Mexico (with Rex Koontz), Reading the Maya Glyphs, and Royal Cities of the Ancient Maya.

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