Cacaosophy

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

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

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

Along with women who wrote hot chocolate into cookbooks and letters, cultural critics reporting on social manners and habits were among...