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The book of chocolate : the amazing story of the world's favorite candy
\"From its origin as the sacred, bitter drink of South American rulers to the familiar candy bars sold by today's multimillion dollar businesses, people everywhere have fallen in love with chocolate, the world's favorite flavor...Join science author HP Newquist as he explores chocolate's fascinating history.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Crafting the culture and history of French chocolate
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 there and in southwest France to relate how they work and how they confront the representatives and structures of power, from taste makers, CEOs, and advertising executives to the technocrats of Paris and Brussels. Looking at craft culture and community from a cross-disciplinary perspective, Terrio finds that the chocolatiers affirm their collective identity and their place in the present by commemorating selectively their role in history. In addition to joining a distinguished tradition of American anthropological writing on the role of food, her study of the social production of taste in the invention of vintage, grand cru chocolates lends specificity and weight to theories of consumption by Pierre Bourdieu and others. The book will appeal to anthropologists, cultural studies scholars, and anyone curious about life in contemporary France. Many titles in the Voices Revived program are also newly available as ebooks, offered at a discounted price to support wider access to scholarly work.
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Chocolate, “Food of the Gods”: History, Science, and Human Health
Chocolate is well known for its fine flavor, and its history began in ancient times, when the Maya considered chocolate (a cocoa drink prepared with hot water) the “Food of the Gods”. The food industry produces many different types of chocolate: in recent years, dark chocolate, in particular, has gained great popularity. Interest in chocolate has grown, owing to its physiological and potential health effects, such as regulation of blood pressure, insulin levels, vascular functions, oxidation processes, prebiotic effects, glucose homeostasis, and lipid metabolism. However, further translational and epidemiologic studies are needed to confirm available results and to evaluate other possible effects related to the consumption of cocoa and chocolate, verifying in humans the effects hitherto demonstrated only in vitro, and suggesting how best to consume (in terms of dose, mode, and time) chocolate in the daily diet.
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Cadbury's purple reign : the story behind chocolate's best-loved brand
A unique expose of the Cadbury story, providing an unprecedented insight into the makings of an iconic brand.Cadbury's Puple Reign for the first time tells the in-depth story and definitive history of the Cadbury brand, and how it came to be the world's pre-eminent chocolate brand.
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Chocolate on trial
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Maps -- 1 Henry W. Nevinson and Modern Slavery -- 2 The Firm of Cadbury and the World of Slave Labor -- 3 Portugal and West Africa -- 4 Evidence Amassed -- 5 Joseph Burtt's Report -- 6 Careful Steps and Concern-or Dragging Feet and Hypocrisy? -- 7 Defending Reputations -- Gallery -- 8 Cadbury Bros., Ltd. v. The Standard Newspaper, Ltd. -- 9 The Verdict -- 10 Humanitarians, the Foreign Office, and Portugal, 1910-1914 -- 11 The Aftermath -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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All About Hot Chocolate
\"On a cold winter night there is nothing better than a mug of hot chocolate to warm you up. Though it is a simple drink, there is a long history behind the warm treat.\" (World Book Online Behind the Headlines) Read more about the history of hot chocolate.
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