"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 ..."
"1997. 240 S. Mit zahlr. auch farb. Abb. Fadengehefteter Originalpappband mit Schutzumschlag. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - To the four great calligraphic traditions - ancient Egyptian, East Asian, Islamic, and western European - we must now add a fifth: that of the ancient Maya. Long known but little understood, it has recently experienced a revolution in decipherment, shedding bright light on what had been a mystery. Making full u ..."