Story of Food: Chocolate
No. of pages 32
Published: 2018
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Did you know that the chocolate bar you can pick up from any corner shop used to be a precious and exotic food that only aristocracy could afford? This book looks at the history of one of our favourite foods, from the ancient civilisations who made the first hot chocolate to today's global sweets industry.
Other topics covered are health aspects of chocolate, how it is produced, its chemical properties and how it is traded around the world.
An ideal leisure read, but also perfect for coursework and presentations.
This book is part of a book series called The Story Of Food .
There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Hachette Children's Group .
Alex Woolf is a well-known children's non-fiction author, with many books on history to his credit.
This book has the following chapters:
- 1: What is chocolate?
- 2: Cacao farming
- 3: From beans to chocolate
- 4: How to enjoy chocolate
- 5: Chocolate and health
- 6: The origins of chocolate
- 7: The Spanish discover chocolate
- 8: Chocolate comes to Europe
- 9: The birth of an industry
- 10: The arrival of the chocolate bar
- 11: Swiss chocolate
- 12: The Hershey bar
- 13: Chocolate today
- 14: Timeline
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