What we call Chocolate is also known as Theobroma cacao. The botanical name “theobroma” means “food of the gods”; it was given to the plant by Europeans during their overseas scientific expeditions of the 1700s. They endeavored to classify all plant matter on earth and thus both a genus and a species name was assigned to each plant. Carl Linneaus, a Swedish botanist who lived during the 1700s theorized that a naming convention would eliminate confusion among the hundreds of thousands of plants known at the time to exist. [Read more…]
Chocolate
Chocolate Grows on Trees
The True History of Chocolate. / Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe. Published by Thames and Hudson, 2007, c1996. 280 pages, illustrated; with Notes, Bibliography and Index. [Read more…]
Dreams of Chocolate
The New Taste of Chocolate Revised: A Cultural and Natural History of Cacao with Recipes. / by Maricel E. Presilla. Published by Ten Speed Press, 2009. [Read more…]
