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Chocolate: The Food of the Gods
A charming little book on the history, processing and love of chocolate. Includes 27 pages of recipes and an index that peculiarly covers only the recipes pretty useless. Charming color paintings by Liz Wright. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
120 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 1993
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March 27, 2009
A quirky book, packed with pointless trivia about the "food" I love most. For instance, did you know that "In 1797 Goethe, the German poet and philosopher, made sure he had his chocolate equipment when traveling in Switzerland. From our current perspective, it seems odd that a German should have felt it necessary to take his chocolate with him to Switzerland. However, the Swiss did not actually start manufacturing chocolate until as late as 1845..."?
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