17th Century

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Mousse and the Royal Mouth

Beer froths into one type of mousse...not the point of this post. "Brasserie" [Brewery], engraved by Robert Benard, in Receuil de...

Characters and their Cups

This post asks the question, why don’t Dr. Frankenstein or Count Dracula drink chocolate? Let’s get this out of the way: Franken Berry...

American. Chocolate. Week.

Yes, American Chocolate Week lasts seven days, March 17-23, 2019. But is it really about America? Or chocolate? It depends on your...

When and Why Chocolate, circa 1700

Limonadier, ière. Marchand qui vend de la limonade, de la liqueur et plusieurs autres sortes de liqueur, comme eaux de cerises, verjus,...

Surely and Good Enough, or Witty Orthography

Dorothy Shirley and Ann Goodenough’s recipes round out the panoply of inventive applications for and spellings of chocolate in...

Like Chocolate, Like Syllabub

On a recent trip to the Folger Shakespeare Library, I had the opportunity to read cover-to-cover extant seventeenth-century family recipe...

Como Agua para Chocolate

Codex Medoza, c. 1540. Attributed to Francisco Gualpuyogualcal and to Juan González. Transport method of cacao (next to jaguar skins)...

Sugar, Spice, and Everything Twice

The Coco-Nut Tree, 1739 Penelope Jephson was most famous for having married Simon Patrick, prolific bishop, anti-semite, and...

Women's Work II

Broadside against coffee, one of many from the 1660s and 70s. Houghton Library, Harvard. The 1660s were a busy decade for writing about...

A Chocolate Doctrine of Discovery

Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma. Frontispiece, Chocolata inda, Trans. Johann Georg Volckamer, Nuremberg: Wolfgangi Enderi, 1644....

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