Women's Work I
Pieter Boudewyn Van Der Aa, Manière dont les habitants de la Nouvelle Espagne préparent le cacao pour le chocolat. Galerie Agréable du...
Chocolate on Ice
On the occasion of National Ice Cream Day... Ice cream molds from the Encyclopédie, Plate IV July might well be the last month of the...
Some Like it Hot
Phoscao, The Most Delicious of the Heartiest and Most Restorative Breakfasts. Free Shipping of Sample Box. European bodies first made...
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The European Chocolate Cup Mancerina i xícara* Alcora Manufactory, tin-glazed earthenware, mid-18th century. Reproduces the fashion of...
An 18th-C Who's Who
A propos of nothing, today was the royal wedding of the Brit and the American. Stateside, it is National Devil's Food Cake Day. That's a...
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The European Chocolate Pot or Chocolatière "This is the same chocolaty pottes that are mayd in the Indis" Pot and molinillo (molinet, or...
Megalopyge's 'Powers of Annoyance'
Last month Maria Sibylla Merian ranked among a host of intellectuals who had depicted cacao (see Pods, Pots, and Potions). This month we...
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Aztec Methods 1) Grinding chocolate: Aztec woman grinding beans (foreground) Bernardino de Sahagún, The Florentine Codex [Historia...
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...