The biography of chocolate
All about chocolate: where it comes from, how it's made, how it gets to the store. Provides a history of the popular cacao-derived food, describing the evolution of chocolate's production and usage from Mayan times to the present day.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Crabtree Publishing ,
c2006
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| Series: | How did that get here?
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- 1. What is chocolate?
- 2. Chocolate lands
- 3. The chocolate tree
- 4. The first chocolate cultivators
- 5. A sweet European discovery
- 6. Chocolate spreads
- 7. Cacao slavery
- 8. Birth of the chocolate industry
- 9. Big chocolate companies
- 10. West African chocolate
- 11. Harvesting cacao
- 12. From bean to bar
- 13. A bitter end to chocolate