Detail from the first chapter page from Dufour’s Usage du caphé, du thé, et du chocolate.
Featured on PDR in the essay When Chocolate was Medicine: Colmenero, Wadsworth, and Dufour
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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Detail from a page of Dufour’s Usage du Caphé, du Thé, et du Chocolate
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Usage du caphé, du thé, et du chocolate
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