Chocolate : a cultural encyclopedia / Ross F. Collins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, Ross F., author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chocolate--Social aspects--Encyclopedias.

Chocolate.

Chocolate--Encyclopedias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 422 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

ABC-CLIO, 2022.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Chocolate is nearly always with us-when celebrating or mourning, in love or alone, healthy or sick, happy or sad. This book offers a comprehensive look at how an exotic food grew to play such a central role in our lives. No food in the world can offer as storied a history as chocolate. Chocolate: A Cultural Encyclopedia focuses on cocoa's history from ancient Mesoamerican beginnings as a symbol of ritual, life, and death, to its omnipresence in Europe, North America, and the rest of the world. In 10 thematic chapters covering chocolate in society and culture, 80 shorter entries, recipes, and a comprehensive timeline, this new book takes a closer look at how chocolate has served as a medicine, an indulgence, a symbol of decadence, a door to romance, a tempting taboo, a means of survival, and a snack for children and adults alike. Why did popes and kings so fear their chocolate? Who invented milk chocolate, and why was its formula kept secret? Why did soldiers in World War II despise their chocolate rations? Who makes the most chocolate today? Find out the answers to these questions and more as this book tells you everything you wanted to know-and a lot you didn't even know existed-about the seed from the world's favorite fruit tree.

Contents:

A natural history of cacao

Chocolate conquers the world

Sweet history : chocolate and health

Bitter history : slaving for chocolate

The spirit of chocolate : myth and religion / Karl Bakkum

Putting the sweet in popular culture : chocolate and the arts / Michael J. Stein

Politics, exploration and military : cocoa for king and country

Preparation : rituals, recipes and poisons

Processing cacao

Chocolate for profit : the business of cacao

Chocolate recipes / Dotty Curry

Chocolate A to Z.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Collins, Ross F. Chocolate: a Cultural Encyclopedia

ISBN:

9798400626005

9798216060512

9781440876080

1440876088

OCLC:

1290244644