Detail from a page of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún's Historia general de las cosas de nueva España, Book X, Folio 69, verso.
Featured on PDR in the essay Pods, Pots, and Potions: Putting Cacao to Paper in Early Modern Europe
Christine Jones explores the different ways the cacao tree has been depicted through history — from 16th-century codices to 18th-century botanicals — and what this changing iconography reveals about cacao’s journey into European culture.
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Aztec people making chocolate
Date
1577
From
Historia general de las cosas de nueva España
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