The Book of Chocolate: Revised and Updated Edition

by Jeanne Bourin, John Feltwell, Nathalie Bailleux

Based on the original Flammarion title, The Book of Chocolate, this lavishly illustrated book, now edited and brought up to date, takes readers on a journey through the history and production of the world's most seductive chocolate. Learn how the cocoa bean, first enjoyed by the Aztecs, has traveled around the globe to produce endless variations of chocolate. Through the eyes of food critics, chefs, journalists, and historians, this book explores the rich history of chocolate, along with a modern-day investigation of its many flavors and forms.

A list of tantalizing recipes and a guide to the finest purveyors of chocolate worldwide make this volume indispensable to chocolate lovers everywhere.

If the list of recipes is not enough to bring out the chocoholic in you, just look at the delicious illustrations, specially commissioned photographs, rare vintage posters, and fine paintings all in honor of this favorite confection.

Genres: Nonfiction, Food, Cooking

200 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Romancière et historienne, Jeanne Bourin (1922-2003) connaît un immense succès avec ses romans historiques. Passionnée par le Moyen Age, elle consacre la plupart de ses ouvrages à cette période. «Très sage Héloïse» a été couronné par l'Académie française. «La Chambre des dames», puis «Le Jeu de la tentation» et «Le Grand Feu» sont toujours de vrais succès populaires.

Reviews

[Lorraine · Rating 5 out of 5]

A dream of a book! All parts are just divine. I read The Book of Chocolate by Nathalie Bailleux, Herve
Bizeul, John Feltwell et al, and I reread it. The recipes I read, oh, so many times. I am going to make a few of them - starting with chocolate pudding. Yummy!! The history of the cacao plantations is so very interesting. The history of chocolate, great names in chocolate, the taste of chocolate follow. This beautiful book ends with a connoisseur's guide which mentions names in the chocolate world all over the world! The World of Chocolate belongs on everyone's coffee table! Excellent!

[Kayla Kurin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Full of interesting facts and stories about chocolate, the history of chocolate, and more. Makes your mouth water.

[Matt · Rating 5 out of 5]

a picture book for adult aficionados...large snapshot essays of the cacao plantation, the various discoveries of its properties in various cultures, the history of chocolate in business, and finally, a romance of its flavor and appeal.

[Beth · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mmmm...chocolate.