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Over 300 Great Recipes Carla Bardi and Claire Pietersen - All books by this author T his book might easily be the most lavish, the most complete, and most beautiful volume ever published on the subject of that most sensuous of all foods—chocolate. Filled with history, anecdotes, and recipes, and featuring hundreds of lavish full-color photos, The Golden Book of Chocolate is literally a chocolate lover’s dream come true. A fascinating detailed account chronicles chocolate’s origins among the Aztecs of ancient Mexico, its importation to Europe, and the development of the modern chocolate industry as we know it today. But recipes are at the heart of this book. Separate chapters are devoted to chocolate’s central role in easy-to-follow recipes for:
A Capsule History of Chocolate Among the Aztecs the drinking of chocolate was confined to the royal house, the lords, and the nobility. A report by Spanish conquistador Bernial Diaz del Castillo noted that Montezuma drank chocolate several times a day from beakers made of pure gold. The Spanish brought chocolate to Europe in the late 1500s, and by the 1660s it was a favorite drink of Renaissance Italian noblemen. In the 1800s it became a popular drink among the literary figures who gathered in London’s coffee houses, and in the nineteenth century the world’s first chocolate candy was produced in the city of Bristol, England . About The Authors: Carla Bardi grew up in Tuscany and currently operates a small vineyard in Italy with her husband. She is the author of many internationally successful cookbooks, most of them devoted to regional Italian cooking. Claire Pietersen trained at Westminster College, London, as a chef, and has specialized for many years in pastry cooking. Currently, she lives and works in Melbourne, Australia, exploring and developing new recipe ideas. (0764161571) Hardcover w/jacket / 704 Pages / 6 1/2 x 8 9/16 / 2008 | ||
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