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The True History of Chocolate / Sophie D. Coe, Michael D. Coe ; with 97 illustrations, 13 in colour.
LIBRA - Blank Collection TP640 .C67 1996b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coe, Sophie D. (Sophie Dobzhansky), 1933-1994.
- Coe, Michael D., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chocolate--History.
- Chocolate.
- Cocoa--History.
- Cocoa.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 280 pages, [8] pages of colour plates : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Thames and Hudson, 1996.
- Contents:
- Preface / Michael D. Coe
- Introduction
- The Tree of the Food of the Gods
- The Birth of Cacao: Olmec-Maya Genesis
- The Aztecs: People of the Fifth Sun
- Encounter and Transformation
- Chocolate Conquers Europe
- The Source
- Chocolate in the Age of Reason (and Unreason)
- Chocolate for the Masses
- Epilogue: Full Circle.
- Notes:
- On the front dust jacket: detail of an early 18th-century painted tile panel depicting a chocolatada (chocolate party) in Valencia (Museu de Ceràmica, Barcelona). Front background and back: moulds for chocolate creams from the catalogue of Maison Letang père et fils, Paris, 1907.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-276) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0500016933
- OCLC:
- 34922964
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