The True History of Chocolate
Dear friends, if you like history and you're a chocolate lover then you'll adore this book!
Thanks to "The true history of the chocolate" by Sophie and Michael D. Coe, now, when I'm eating a piece of chocolate, I'm not eating like before, because now i'm feeling the whole weight of the 3 millenia of true history in this product. The value of this product increased a lot more for me from now on.
At the beginning, considered the food of the Gods, after the food of the nobles and clergy, and only after a food for masses... chocolate passed through so many battles, conflicts, experiments, to achieve what it is now: one of the most important culinary ingredient that revolutionned many culinary aspects of Europe and other continents...
I've been impressed how chocolate was disconsidered at some point then considered as a great medicine, then the basis of a great range of chocolate and coffee houses...
I liked more the second part of the book, because the events mentioned were more likely to approach the modernity, and Italy and France started to largely use chocolate in savoury, sweets and desserts.
This is in this book that I've discovered that Tobler(one), Lindt and Nestle were actually founders of chocolate factories, and those were their names and all of them from Switzerland... The book is absolutely full of history and chocolate curiosities... For example, the author is mentioning quite in generous details the link between Marquis de Sade and the chocolate etc. etc...
Belle lecture, chers amis! <3
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