Chocolatical Cookery
Seventeenth-century treatises on cacao such as those featured here were published as medical literature or botanicals, and are now...
Froth in Venice (Voltaire III)
The ironies abound when Candide and his new traveling companion, Martin, a downtrodden scholar, arrive in Venice. Their destination is...
Chocolate and Syphilis, A Satire (Voltaire I)
While treatises constitute an important and authoritative source for ideas about chocolate in the period before caffeine, chocolate also...
Buc'hoz and Cacao Economics
Pierre-Joseph Buc’hoz, a doctor of medicine and natural science by training, had every reason to write a book about chocolate in 1787....