{"product_id":"the-true-history-of-chocolate-third-edition-9780500290682","title":"The True History of Chocolate: Third Edition","description":"This delightful tale of one of the world's favorite foods draws on botany, archaeology, and culinary history to present a complete and accurate history of chocolate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It begins some 4,000 years ago in the jungles of Mexico and Central America with the chocolate tree, \u003cem\u003eTheobroma Cacao\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 available to all, and now, in our own time, it has become once again a luxury item.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The third edition includes new photographs and revisions throughout that reflect the latest scholarship. A new final chapter on a Guatemalan chocolate producer, located within the Pacific coastal area where chocolate was first invented, brings the volume up-to-date.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCoe, Sophie D.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eSophie D. Coe\u003c\/strong\u003e was an anthropologist and food historian. Her book \u003cem\u003eAmerica's First Cuisines\u003c\/em\u003e was published in 1994 to universal acclaim.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCoe, Michael D.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eMichael D. Coe\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Yale University. His books include \u003cem\u003eThe Maya, Mexico, Breaking the Maya Code\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAngkor and the Khmer Civilization\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eReading the Maya Glyphs.\u003c\/em\u003e He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.","brand":"Thames \u0026 Hudson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491788394770,"sku":"9780500290682","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_057abbdb-8ccb-4c62-80a5-61fcac2925dc.jpg?v=1730555488","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-true-history-of-chocolate-third-edition-9780500290682","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}