"This tale of one of the world's favourite foods draws upon botany, archaeology, socio-economics and culinary history to present a complete history of chocolate. The story begins some 3000 years ago in the jungles of Mexico and Central America with the tree "Theobroma cacao" and the complex processes necessary to transform its bitter seeds into chocolate. This was centuries before chocolate was consumed, traded and used as currency by th ..."
"Roversi, Giancarlo 1984 "Tra vecchia e nuova cucina." In Aurelio Bassani and
Giancarlo Roversi (eds.), Eminenza, il pranzo e servito. Bologna: Aniballi
Edizione. Roys, Ralph L. 1931 The Ethno-Botany of the Maya. Middle American
Research Series Publication no. 2. New Orleans: Tulane. 1933 The Book of
Chilam Balam of Chumayel. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of
Washington. Ruiz Lopez, Hipolito 1952 Relation historica del viage ..."
"Sophie D. Coe, Michael D. Coe. Olmec stone monument should turn up with an
indisputable depiction of a cacao tree or pod, we were left with historical
linguistics rather than archaeology as our only source of data. But this pessimism
... have shown that the first potteryusing culture of Mesoamerica, dubbed “Barra”
by the archaeologists, was remarkably advanced in ceramic technology, with
delicate, sophisticated, neckless jars—so de ..."
"Este relato acerca de uno de los alimentos predilectos del mundo se basa en la botánica, la arqueología, la socioeconomía y el arte culinario para presentar por primera vez una historia completa y precisa del chocolate. La narración comienza hace unos tres mil años en las selvas de México y de América Central con el árbol Theobroma cacao y los complejos procesos necesarios para transformar sus amargas semillas en lo que hoy conocemos co ..."
America's First Cuisines(1st Edition) (Spanish Edition) by SophieD. Coe Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1994 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-71155-6, ISBN: 0-292-71155-7