The True History of Chocolate

The Definitive Guide to the world’s 
best-loved food, now revised and updated for its third edition...

‘A splendid treat’ – New York Review of Books
'Begins with the origins of the cacao tree and follows the story up to today’s mass-produced chocolate candy and its expensive boutique counterparts…. 
A pleasure, not just for chocoholics but for anyone who enjoys lively, thorough historical sleuthing 
via the printed page'– Gourmet
'Exceptionally interesting throughout' – Washington Post
'Anyone who loves chocolate … 
will be riveted by its revelations'– Los Angeles Times
'A beautifully written, indexed, and illustrated history of the Food of the Gods, from the Olmecs 
to present-day developments'– Chocolatier
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.

English

2013

280 Pages

15,50 x 23 cm