(However grotesque, hence plausible, this may sound to our ears today, influenced as they are by the Victorians, the Middles Ages, remember, belong to the Renaissance when crude bodily functions such as snots, spit, burps, farts, & crap enjoyed, according to literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, deeply moving associations – all positive! with Mayan gods which look like hybrid beasts and have fantastic names: Quetzalcoatl

Instead, the Coes track a prudent and punctilious path through chocolate's beginnings in ancient Meso-America; its transformation during the age of empire and Spanish colonization; its dispersal across Europe; and chocolate's more recent incarnation at ``Hershey, the Chocolate Town,'' a Disney-esque, sweet-toothed theme park in Hershey, Penn., and headquarters of one of the world's leading chocolate manufacturers. A smaller part of the book is dedicated to chocolate’s This is a serious undertaking for the two authors. RELEASE DATE: Aug. 7, 2012. this delicious smushed up cocoa and vegetable fat confection. A New York Times columnist and editorial board member delivers a slim book for aspiring writers, offering saws and sense, wisdom and waggery, biases and biting sarcasm. He urges readers to use short, clear sentences and to make sure each one is healthy before moving on; notes that it’s acceptable to start sentences with and and but; sees benefits in diagramming sentences; stresses that all writing is revision; periodically blasts the formulaic writing that many (most?) Literally & physically a labor of love as Sophie Coe died in the very act of writing this history that was completed by her equally erudite husband, a fellow anthropology professor at Yale, who was pivotal in recognizing the PSS (Primary Standard Sequence) that in conjunction with several other key links ultimately allowed Dr. David Stuart at Harvard to decipher Mayan glyphs that adorn their pottery vessels.

#bookblogger based in London. But the lore they offer also includes pleasantly bemusing facts and speculations, such as those surrounding chocolate's etymology. &

We’re glad you found a book that interests you. Coe's The True History of Chocolate is a blending between genres, while not entirely a textbook it is still very informative and well written. fostered a new national addiction. Strange to think of, given that the production of cacao these days is a source of many ethical problems, such as Fairtrade farming and rainforest clearance. and England where its consumption brought with it a whole new set of social is the Mesoamerican feathered snake god which embellishes several of them.

mores. A carefully researched biography of chocolate as a pleasure and a product. / Learn from them”), and the text suffers from a corrosive fallacy: that if his strategies work for him they will work for all. ‧ I write blogs about books and I’m based in lovely London, UK.

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