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...
Utensils 4
The European Chocolate Cup Mancerina i xícara* Alcora Manufactory, tin-glazed earthenware, mid-18th century. Reproduces the fashion of...
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