Arms & the Man, George Bernard Shaw (1894)
Bookcase Location: TOP SHELF - Essential Buy It Here Arms & the Man; George Bernard Shaw (theatrical play, 1894; published book 1898); basis for the 1908 operetta Chocolate Soldier (later made into silent film in 1915 & Broadway play 1947) With apologies to...
The Jaguar & the Cacao Tree by Birgitte Rasine (2016)
Faulkner noted “fiction is often the best fact”. Little wonder metaphors suit Mayan cosmology better than archeology & anthropology. Just as lines of great poetics break the...
The New Taste of Chocolate, by Maricel Presilla (2001)
Bookcase Location: TOP SHELF - Essential Dr. Maricel Presilla is largely responsible for putting premium chocolate on the map in the USA. Arguably our finest public educator, if there were only one book to have on the subject, this would probably be it. New Taste is...
The True History of Chocolate, by Sophie & Michael Coe (1996)
Bookcase Location: TOP SHELF - Essential Get it Here Both an academic & popular title, True History is an authoritative social account of cacáo & a compendium of the tree’s rich lore & voyage from the Americas to global phenomenon. Literally &...