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| The True History of Chocolate, Second Edition | 
 enlarge | Authors: Sophie D. Coe, Michael D. Coe
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 42230
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0500286965
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.3374
EAN: 9780500286968
ASIN: 0500286965
Publication Date: October 29, 2007
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 Totally Cholestorol Free September 6, 2001
35 out of 36 found this review helpful
This book may be the only way to indulge in chocolate without gaining weight. The "True History of Chocolate" is fascinating in relating the Mayan and Inca cacao rituals - chocolate was an all-purpose sauce, drink, drug, what-have-you, as the recent film "Chocolat" attests. There are wonderful stories of chocolate's introduction to aristocratic Europe, as immortalized by Dicken's account of the Marquis' chocolate drinking in "A Tale of Two Cities." As today, doctors of the day were divided on chocolate's merits, wildly debating whether chocolate generated a phlegmatic or choleric humor. Only very recently was chocolate sweetened, and only later yet was it reduced to solid form and packaged in factories. The Coes seem to suggest that something mysterious was forever lost when the vulgarians of Cadbury and Hershey started peddling cacao to the masses.
An outstanding and well writen book January 23, 1999
6 out of 21 found this review helpful
One of the best writen books I have read. Truthfull and soundly based, it is a monument for MS Coe.
What a Read ! July 27, 1998
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
This is one of the better books I've ever read. The research of Sophie Coe is quite amazing and her passion for the history of chocolate is contagious. Her husband Michael is a beautiful writer...and he was called on to finish this the last work of his brilliant wife who died before it could be completed. I loved this book !!
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