Chocolate : history, culture, and heritage /
edited by Louis Evan Grivetti, Howard-Yana Shapiro.
- xxiv, 975 pages, 64 pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 29 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Beginnings and religion. Cacao use in Yucatán among the pre-Hispanic Maya / Tempest in a chocolate pot : origin of the word cacao / Ancient Gods and Christian celebrations : chocolate and religion / Chocolate and sinful behaviors : inquisition testimonies / Nation of nowhere : Jewish role in colonial American chocolate history / Medicine and recipes. Medicinal chocolate in new Spain, western Europe, and North America ; Chocolate and the Boston smallpox epidemic of 1764 ; From bean to beverage : historical chocolate recipes / Chocolate as medicine : imparting dietary advice and moral values through 19th century North American cookbooks / Serving and advertising. Chocolate preparation and serving vessels in early North America / Silver chocolate pots of colonial Boston / Is it a chocolate pot? Chocolate and its accoutrements in France from cookbook to collectible / Commercial chocolate pots : reflections of cultures, values, and times / Role of trading cards in marketing chocolate during the late 19th century / Commercial chocolate posters : reflections of cultures, values, and times / Chocolate at the World's Fairs / Gabrielle Vail -- Martha J. Macri -- Louis Evan Grivetti, Beatriz Cabezon -- Beatriz Cabezon, Patricia Barriga, Louis Evan Grivetti -- Celia D. Shapiro -- Louis Evan Grivetti -- Deanna Pucciarelli -- Amanda Lange -- Gerald R. Ward -- Suzanne Perkins -- Margaret Swisher -- Virginia Westbrook -- Margaret Swisher -- Nicholas Westbrook -- Economics, education, and crime. Pirates, prizes, and profits : cocoa and early American east coast trade ; How much is that cocoa in the window? Cocoa's position in the early American marketplace / "C" is for chocolate : chocolate and cacao as educational themes in 18th century North America ; Chocolate, crime, and the courts : selected English trial documents, 1693-1834 ; Dark chocolate : chocolate and crime in North America and elsewhere / Colonial and federal eras (part 1). Chocolate and other colonial beverages / Chocolate production and uses in 17th and 18th century North America / Chocolate's early history in Canada / A necessary luxury : chocolate in Louisbourg and New France / Chocolate manufacturing and marketing in Massachusetts, 1700-1920 / Boston chocolate : newspaper articles and advertisements, 1705-1825 / Kurt Richter, Nghiem Ta -- Louis Evan Grivetti -- Frank Clark -- James F. Gay -- Catherine Macpherson -- Anne Marie Lane Jonah, Ruby Fougére, Heidi Moses -- Anne Blaschke -- Louis Evan Grivetti -- Colonial and federal eras (part 2). Dutch cacao trade in New Netherland during the 17th and 18th centuries / Chocolate consumption and production in New York's Upper Hudson River Valley / Chocolate makers in 18th century Pennsylvania / Breakfasting on chocolate : chocolate in military life on the Northern frontier, 1750-1780 / Chocolate and North American whaling voyages / Southeast/southwest borderlands and California. Blood, conflict, and faith : chocolate in the southeast and southwest borderlands, 1641-1833 / Sailors, soldiers, and padres : California chocolate, 1542?-1840 / From gold bar to chocolate bar : California's chocolate history / Peter G. Rose -- W. Douglas McCombs -- James F. Gay -- Nicholas Westbroook, Christopher D. Fox, Anne McCarty -- Christopher Kelly -- Beatriz Cabezon, Patricia Barriga, Louis Evan Grivetti -- Louis Even Grivetti, Patricia Barriga, Beatriz Cabezon -- Bertram M. Gordon -- Caribbean and South America. Caribbean cocoa : planting and production / Caribbean chocolate : preparation, consumption, and trade / History of cacao cultivation and chocolate consumption in Cuba / History of cacao and chocolate in Cuban literature, games, music, and culinary arts / Establishing cacao plantation culture in the Atlantic world : Portuguese cacao cultivation in Brazil and West Africa, circa 1580-1912 / Europe and Asia. Cure or confection? Chocolate in the Portuguese royal court and colonial hospitals, 1580-1830 / Chocolate in France : evolution of a luxury product ; Commerce, colonies, and cacao : chocolate in England from introduction to industrialization ; Chinese chocolate : ambergris, emperors, and export ware / Janet Henshall Momsen, Pamela Richardson -- Janet Henshall Momsen, Pamela Richardson -- Niurka Núñez González Noriega, Niurka Núñez González -- Estrella González Noriega, Niurka Núñez González -- Timothy Walker -- Timothy Walker -- Bertam M. Gordon -- Production, manufacturing, and contemporary activities. Cacao, haciendas, and the Jesuits : letters from New Spain, 1693-1751 / From stone metates to steel mills : the evolution of chocolate manufacturing / Adulteration : the dark world of "dirty" chocolate / Making colonial era chocolate : the colonial Williamsburg experience / American heritage chocolate / Twenty-first century attitudes and behaviors regarding the medicinal use of chocolate / Fieldwork, methodology, and interpretation. Symbols from ancient times : paleography and the St. Augustine chocolate saga / Digging for chocolate in Charleston and Savannah / Management of cacao and chocolate data : design and development of a chocolate research portal / Base metal chocolate pots in North America : context and interpretation / Blue and gray chocolate : searching for American Civil War chocolate references / Chocolate futures : promising areas for further research / Beatriz Cabezon -- Rodney Snyder, Bradley Foliart Olsen, Laura Pallas Brindle -- Laura Pallas Brindle, Bradley Foliart Olsen -- James F. Gay, Frank Clark -- Eric Whitacre, William Bellody, Rodney Snyder -- Deanna Pucciarelli, James Barrett -- Beatriz Cabezon, Louis Evan Grivetti -- Laura Pallas Brindle, Bradley Foliart Olsen -- Matthew Lange -- Phil Dunning, Christopher D. Fox -- Louis Evan Grivetti -- Louis Evan Grivetti, Howard-Yana Shapiro.