Pods, Pots, and Potions: Putting Cacao to Paper in Early Modern Europe
The different ways the cacao tree has been depicted through history — from 16th-century codices to 18th-century botanicals — and what this c
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Mayan Methods 1) Grinding cacao: Metate, or grinding stone (bottom left-of-center) Maya, 750–850, Cylinder Vessel with Supernatural Palace Scene and Cacao Tree (rollout photograph), Guatemala, Petén, Motul de San José or vicinity, Los Angeles County Museum of Art © Museum Associates/LACMA Conservation Photographed by Yosi Pozeilov 2) Frothing Chocolate: "The Princeton Vase" Maya, Late Classic (670–750), 'Codex' style, Nakbé region, Mirador Basin, Petén, Guatemala Princeton Un