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This tale of one of the world's favourite foods draws upon botany, archaeology, socio-economics and culinary history to present a complete history of chocolate. The story begins some 3000 years ago in the jungles of Mexico and Central America with the tree "Theobroma cacao" and the complex processes necessary to transform its bitter seeds into chocolate. This was centuries before chocolate was consumed, traded and used as currency by the sophisticated Maya, and the Aztecs after them. The Spanish conquest of Central America introduced chocolate to Europe, where it became the first stimulating drink of kings and aristocrats and then was democratized in coffee houses. Industrialization in the 19th and 20th centuries made chocolate a food for the masses - until its revival in our own time as a luxury item.

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'A true classic' - The Literary Review 'Richly detailed and illustrated... a delightful work' - The Independent on Sunday 'An indispensable companion to the chocolate lover' - Chocolatier 'A splendid treat' - The New York Review of Books 'Genuinely scholarly and highly entertaining... erudite and delightful' - The Sunday Telegraph 'Truly exceptional' - The Scotsman
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Sophie D. Coe was an anthropologist and food historian. Michael D. Coe is Professor Emeritus of Archaeology and Curator Emeritus in the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University, and is the author of the bestselling Breaking the Maya Code, also published by Thames & Hudson.

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  • PublisherThames & Hudson Ltd
  • Publication date1996
  • ISBN 10 0500016933
  • ISBN 13 9780500016930
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages280
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