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Chocolate

Ross F Collins

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  • 448 sidor
  • 2022
Chocolate is nearly always with uswhen celebrating or mourning, in love or alone, healthy or sick, happy or sad. This book offers a comprehensive look at how an exotic food grew to play such a central role in our lives. No food in the world can offer as storied a history as chocolate. Chocolate: A Cultural Encyclopedia focuses on cocoa's history from ancient Mesoamerican beginnings as a symbol of ritual, life, and death, to its omnipresence in Europe, North America, and the rest of the world. In 10 thematic chapters covering chocolate in society and culture, 80 shorter entries, recipes, and a comprehensive timeline, this new book takes a closer look at how chocolate has served as a medicine, an indulgence, a symbol of decadence, a door to romance, a tempting taboo, a means of survival, and a snack for children and adults alike. Why did popes and kings so fear their chocolate? Who invented milk chocolate, and why was its formula kept secret? Why did soldiers in World War II despise their chocolate rations? Who makes the most chocolate today? Find out the answers to these questions and more as this book tells you everything you wanted to knowand a lot you didn't even know existedabout the seed from the worlds favorite fruit tree.
  • Författare: Ross F Collins
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781440876073
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 448
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-06-01
  • Förlag: ABC-CLIO