BREAD WINE CHOCOLATE by Simran Sethi
Eat Pray Love meet Bread Wine Chocolate. In a rousing book, arousing both envy & pity, Simran Sethi re-tells a saga with updated vignettes, narration, & an impending tick-tock doomsday scenario. Unfortunate subtitle – The Slow Loss of Foods We Love -- for...
Chocolate as Medicine: A Quest Over the Centuries, by Philip Wilson & Jeffrey Hurst (2012)
Adapted from the review of Jacob Schor, ND, FABNO, Natural Medicine Journal, February 2013 Welcome to the end of an anomalous period in which some distortion in the time-space continuum appears to have turned things inside out, upside down, & backwards. For...
The Great Book of Chocolate, by David Lebovitz (2004)
Bookcase Location: BOTTOM SHELF - Honorable Mention Oozes forth pinker & frothier than that staple of upmarket restaurants in the late 20th century – the molten chocolate cake. Easy to picture this guy laced up with the apron on, swirling & twirling chocolate...
Chilies to Chocolate: Food the Americas Gave the World, edited by Nelson Foster & Linda S. Cordell (1992)
Bookcase Location: BOTTOM SHELF - Honorable Mention A weighty collection of essays from esteemed scholars, employing a multi-disciplinary / inter-departmental approach. Spanning agronomy to archeology & anthropology, Chilies to Chocolate covers the broad range of...
Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark & Light, by Mort Rosenblum (2005)
Bookcase Location: BOTTOM SHELF - Honorable Mention A behind-the-scenes investigative report on the state of chocolate around the world... at the turn of the millennium. Mort Rosenblum is a journalist, wordsmith, & transplanted food-hound living among the olive...
Cocoa & Chocolate: Their History from Plantation to Consumer, by Arthur W. Knapp
Bookcase Location: BOTTOM SHELF - Honorable Mention Written almost a hundred years ago & reprinted in 2007. Tight synopsis of the plant’s history, cultivation, & manufacture, with half the book being pictures. Much of the info is still valid today, especially...
The Chocolate-Plant & its Products, by Walter Baker & Co. (1891)
Bookcase Location: BOTTOM SHELF - Honorable Mention A curio & quaint booklet published in 1891, before Milton Hershey even got into the game, let alone chocolate becoming the American candy rage. Walter Baker, the 1st commercial chocolate manufacturer in the USA,...
The Book of Chocolate, published by Flammarion (1995)
Bookcase Location: BOTTOM SHELF - Honorable Mention Coffee table material, sumptuously photographed with engravings, paintings, portraits, graphs, maps, & collectible memorabilia. A compilation with each chapter written by different author(s). Contains the...
The Chocolate Companion, Chantal Coady (2006)
Bookcase Location: BOTTOM SHELF - Honorable Mention Somewhat outdated, this compendium is larded with a repetitive human-interest narration ('he grew up the son of a master baker, in the little town of.... went to the École of Culinary Arts to study under master...
Chocolat (book; movie 2000), by Joanne Harris
Bookcase Location: BOTTOM SHELF - Honorable Mention Bonbons the conduit for this piece of Magic Realism Schlockolat. English-speaking cast of heavyweights set incongruously in an insular French village where the devil’s apprentice herself, Vianne Rocher (Juliette...