Alimentary, my dear Watson
Over the past two months, we have explored chocolate consumption before 1820, when preindustrial science made producing anything solid...
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...
Candy, A Theory
Roundabout Halloween the sale of chocolate candy in the US soars. No one will give tricks. Children will reportedly net several pounds of...
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...
Two Cups Too Many
William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress, Plate 6, The Gaming House, or White's Chocolate House, 1733 From fall 2010 to late summer 2011,...
The Case of the Unarrived Cure
Among other woes once the Glorious Revolution ended in a Declaration of Rights that imposed permanent Protestant rule over England and...
Chocolate on St. James
Pall Mall, St. James's Square and St. James's Street, c. 1833 If the aroma of coffee wafted circa 1650 from St. Michael's Cornhill to...
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...