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An eclectic collection of books about chocolate - histories, references, recipes, even chocolate fiction! Click on the title of interest and you will be magically transported to Amazon.Com where you can learn more about each title and buy the most delicious books you've ever read. None of our recommended reads exactly what you want? Try our Amazon Search box!
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New Taste of Chocolate: A Guide to Fine Chocolate. Maricel E. Presilla Our Price: $20.96 The first time Maricel Presilla tasted cocoa from her grandmother's farm in eastern Cuba, she expected the papaya-looking fruit to be full of Hershey kisses. Instead she saw lumpy, tan-colored seeds in a sticky, sweet-tart ivory pulp that reminded her of lychees, and it didn't even smell like chocolate. In The New Taste of Chocolate, Presilla follows the life of a cocoa pod from a sapling through harvest, fermentation, roasting, and production to arrive at what we all recognize as chocolate. |
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True History of Chocolate Our Price: $13.26 |
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Chocolate Tree : A Natural History Of Cacao. Our Price: $19.56 Young's engaging and scholarly book examines the natural history of cacao and its transformation into a cultivated crop of ancient and modern peoples and its ecological connections to the rain forest. Young points out that cacao is among a handful of New World tropical plants that, due to the Spanish conquest of Central America in the late fifteenth century, became a bridge between two distinct spheres of humankind: Western culture and society on one hand, and the ancient and indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica on the other. |
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About Chocolate : The Ultimate Resource... Our Price: $8.97 Chocoholics beware; All About Chocolate will likely make you drool all over the pages until you can get your next fix of cocoa heaven. This is a mini-encyclopedia of chocolate history, terminology, trivia, and, of course, rich, chocolatey recipes. |
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Crafting
the Culture and History of French Chocolate Susan J. Terrio Our Price: $22.50 This absorbing narrative follows the craft community of French chocolatiers-members of a tiny group experiencing intensive international competition-as they struggle to ensure the survival of their businesses. Susan J. Terrio moves easily among ethnography, history, theory, and vignette, telling a story that challenges conventional views of craft work, associational forms, and training models in late capitalism. She enters the world of Parisian craft leaders and local artisanal families. |
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Discovery of Chocolate James Runcie Our Price: $17.50 In this winning blend of fiction and fact, a long-lived Spaniard serves as narrator and guide through the Old World discovery and development of one of life's consuming passions. In 1518, young Diego de Godoy sets sail for the New World to find a rare treasure to win the heart and hand of Isabella. Joining Cortes, Diego journeys to Mexico, where he guards Montezuma; finds his true-love, Ignacia; and through her discovers the delight of the drink of the cacao bean. |
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Maison Du Chocolat : Transcendent Desserts... Our Price: $35.00
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Year in Chocolate : Four Seasons of Unforgettable Desserts Our Price: $18.16
Medrich has written several other cookbooks, but chocolate is her real love, and she returns once again to it here. She had originally intended this to be a holiday cookbook but decided that that idea was too limiting, so she instead categorizes her recipes by season: "robust flavors" for fall |
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Chocolate Bible : The Definitive Sourcebook... Christian Teubner (Editor), et al Our Price: $23.06 Okay, we know you only read The Chocolate Bible for the articles, but will your friends believe you? After all, this stunning book is so overflowing with luscious photographs of chocolate in all its delectable varieties, shapes, and forms that it's hard to believe one could get any reading done... |
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Bittersweet:
Recipes and Tales from a Life in Chocolate
by Alice Medrich, Deborah Jones
$23.80
In Bittersweet, Alice Medrich continues her mouthwatering crusade to educate chocoholics everywhere about her passion. With 30 years experience, first at her famous Berkeley bakery, Cocolat, and then as an award-winning cookbook author, there is little Medrich doesn't know about chocolate. And what sets this book apart from all others is her willingness to share what's she's learned.
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Art of Chocolate: Techniques & Recipes for Simply Spectacular Desserts
& Confections
$16.97
"Chicago teacher Elaine Gonzalez and photographer Frankie Frankeny
have produced a beautiful and useful book of techniques and recipes called
'The Art of Chocolate'. In addition to cakes, desserts and confections
(including half-a-dozen truffle creations), Gonzales creates chocolate
leaves, flours, cups, baskets and boxes. It's for chocolate lovers of
an artistic bent."
Chicago Tribune
Gourmet
Coffee, Tea and Chocolate Drinks : Creating Your Favorite Recipes at Home
$6.99
Your favorite coffee or tea shop will miraculously appear in your own kitchen with these wonderful recipes for gourmet coffee, tea, and chocolate drinks. This collection boasting over 150,000 copies sold in all editions, presents over 300 captivating taste treats, including Cinnamon-Vanilla Coffee, Cappuccino Royale, Rum Cider Tea, and Strawberry-Amaretto Chocolate Shake. Hot or cold as a morning beverage, afternoon cocktail or evening dessert, these gourmet flavors are within easy reach right at home with this charmingly illustrated and informative volume.