The Secret Life Of Chocolate Av Marcos Patchett

<p><strong>A fascinating guide to the history and medical uses of cacao. </strong></p><p><em>The Secret Life of Chocolate</em> is a book about chocolate.</p><p>Not the sweet, mass-produced fatty confection most of us are familiar with, though.</p><p>This book is about old-school chocolate; pre-Colombian, Central American, bitter-spicy-foamy-intense blow-your-socks-off chocolate; chocolate beverages made with toasted cocoa beans, water, and indigenous plants.</p><p>Today there are many different forms of drinking chocolate in Latin America, most of which reflect European (Spanish) influence, incorporating sugar, cinnamon, and milk.</p><p>The aim of this work is to peel back the years of cultural cross-pollination and anatomize the original Cacao-based beverages, which were richer, more complex, more potent, and darker (in every sense) than modern forms of chocolate.</p><p>This book delves into the ancient history of the human relationship with the cocoa tree, Theobroma cacao; it dissect