Title page from Dr Daniel Duncan’s Wholesome Advice Against the Abuse of Hot Liquors, published in London in 1706.
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Chocolate has not always been the common confectionary we experience today. When it first arrived from the Americas into Europe in the 17th century it was a rare and mysterious substance, thought more of as a drug than as a food. Christine Jones traces the history and literature of its reception.
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Title page from Wholesome Advice Against the Abuse of Hot Liquors
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Wholesome Advice Against the Abuse of Hot Liquors
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