

A Christmas Sermon about Chocolate
This week, in celebration of the Christmas holiday and in reverence to the snow and extreme cold, we take a break from the seventeenth...


The Brewmaster's Gadgets
Of all the writers on caffeinated drinks, Nicolas de Blégny, first physician to Louis XIV, goes furthest in turning them into a form of...


Dufour's Safari of Sociability
If the first edition of Dufour’s treatise presented itself as an introduction to hot beverage history for an uninitiated elite French...

Drug Harvest from God's Pharmacy
Along with women who wrote hot chocolate into cookbooks and letters, cultural critics reporting on social manners and habits were among...