Coe, Sophie D.  1933-1994 <br/><br/>
The true history of chocolate / 
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe. 
 - Third edition. 
 - 280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations (some colour), portraits ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-275) and index. 
<br/><br/>Preface -- Introduction -- The tree of the food of the Gods -- The birth of chocolate Mesoamerican 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 -- The ethics of chocolate . 
<br/><br/> The story begins some 3,000 years ago in the jungles of Mexico and Central America with the chocolate tree, Theobroma Cacao, and the complex processes necessary to transform its bitter seeds into what is now known as chocolate. This was centuries before chocolate was consumed in generally unsweetened liquid form and used as currency by the Maya, and the Aztecs after them. The Spanish conquest of Central America introduced chocolate to Europe, where it first became the drink of kings and aristocrats and then was popularized in coffeehouses. Industrialization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries made chocolate a food for the masses, and now, in our own time, it has become once again a luxury item. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0500290687 (pbk) 9780500290682 (pbk) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012939687 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Chocolate--History<br/>Cacao.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TP640  / .C67 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>641.337409