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Chocolate: A Global History (Edible) Hardcover – September 15, 2009

by Sarah Moss (Author), Alexander Badenoch (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
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Chocolate layer cake. Fudge brownies. Chocolate chip cookies. Boxes of chocolate truffles. Cups of cocoa. Hot fudge sundaes. Chocolate is synonymous with our cultural sweet tooth, our restaurant dessert menus, and our idea of indulgence. Chocolate is adored around the world and has been since the Spanish first encountered cocoa beans in South America in the sixteenth century. It is seen as magical, addictive, and powerful beyond anything that can be explained by its ingredients, and in Chocolate Sarah Moss and Alec Badenoch explore the origins and growth of this almost universal obsession.           

Moss and Badenoch recount the history of chocolate, which from ancient times has been associated with sexuality, sin, blood, and sacrifice. The first Spanish accounts claim that the Aztecs and Mayans used chocolate as a substitute for blood in sacrificial rituals and as a currency to replace gold. In the eighteenth century chocolate became regarded as an aphrodisiac—the first step on the road to today’s boxes of Valentine delights. Chocolate also looks at today’s mass-production of chocolate, with brands such as Hershey’s, Lindt, and Cadbury dominating our supermarket shelves.

Packed with tempting images and decadent descriptions of chocolate throughout

the ages, Chocolate will be as irresistible as the tasty treats it describes.
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  7. ISBN-10
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Sarah Moss is senior lecturer in English literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury. She has written widely on the literature and culture of food. Alec Badenoch is an instructor in media and cultural studies at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands, and the author of Voices in Ruins: West German Radio Across the 1945 Divide (2008).

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Reaktion Books (September 15, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1861895240
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1861895240
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.75 x 0.5 x 7.75 inches
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  • C. A. Bigelow
    5.0 out of 5 stars who doesn't love it. The history was also very interesting and ...
    Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2015
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    Chocolate, who doesn't love it. The history was also very interesting and informative.
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  • Wild Bill
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good read
    Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2015
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    Great book, provided historical context for chocolate use and business.
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  • M. J. Smith
    4.0 out of 5 stars Another solid introduction of cultural and culinary history in The Edible Series
    Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2017
    Another volume in the Edible Series, Chocolate provides a social and culinary history of chocolate emphasizing the aspects of colonization and slavery in the growing of cocoa and the changing view of chocolate as masculine/family/feminine, sensual/sexual/sinful and healthy/unhealthy. The authors are especially adept at finding interesting tidbits of trivia to make their points. Who knew Swiss Miss was created in American by Sicilians?

    The volume traces the use of chocolate from bitter drink to sweetened and smoothed chocolate to truffles to artisan bars of known terroir. Although mentioned, what is short-changed is the use of chocolate in food - mole sauces, puddings, cakes ... This oversight is partially addressed by the short collection of recipes. But this series as a whole are short introductions written to be interesting rather than comprehensive - each volume in some way fails to meet my personal interests while meeting mass interests.
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  • Stephen Scheinberg
    5.0 out of 5 stars excellent
    Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2016
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    Excellent, informative.
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  • lyndonbrecht
    4.0 out of 5 stars A fast and fun read, to be read with an open box of chocolates.
    Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2015
    This is a good introduction, a sort of overview of global chocolate. It is slightly more political than most of the many books in the "edible" series, Moss seeing a large gap between the producers and the far more prosperous consumers. This doesn't go very far, but it's similar to many views on the negative impact of commodities in world trade. This is a very small part of the book.

    The book describes some of the history of how chocolate developed from a New World curiosity to a sizable range of commodities, largely but not all in Europe. The chocolate consumed in 1650 Holland and 1950 New York are not the same. Early on it had a sense of being a drug. For me, the most interesting part is the early marketing that created both demand for products and created specific products, such as the beginnings of today's iconic chocolate firms, hot cocoa as a comfort foods, and so on.

    This is a quite short and easy read, yet still with informative content. You will learn a bit more about chocolate that you knew. This is not a recipe book, or a cookbook. It does have some recipes, sort of.
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  • Adrenalin Streams
    3.0 out of 5 stars Good starter book
    Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2010
    At about 125 pages long this was never going to be a profound book on the subject, but it does a reasonably good job at taking the reader through the history of chocolate post-Spanish colonialisation of Latin America, with an emphasis on the age of industrialsed production. I found the latter parts of the book, which look at more social aspects of chocolate consumption, a bit too waffly and lightweight but overall not a bad starter book on the subject, and the compact size makes it very user friendly.
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  • Chris
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 11, 2016
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    Very young good
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  • Strubbe
    5.0 out of 5 stars Gut und einfach
    Reviewed in Germany on June 13, 2013
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    Wer Schokolade mag, findet alles was er braucht, Geschichte, Produktion und evolution von Verbrauch und Werbung. Trotzdem keine trockene Lektüre.
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  • Adrenalin Streams
    3.0 out of 5 stars Good starter book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 15, 2010
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    At about 125 pages long this was never going to be a profound book on the subject, but it does a reasonably good job at taking the reader through the history of chocolate post-Spanish colonialisation of Latin America, with an emphasis on the age of industrialsed production. I found the latter parts of the book, which look at more social aspects of chocolate consumption, a bit too waffly and lightweight but overall not a bad starter book on the subject, and the compact size makes it very user friendly.
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