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Chocolate wars : the 150-year rivalry between the world's greatest chocolate makers

Call Number

  • 338.7664 C121 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : PublicAffairs, c2010.

Physical Description

xvii, 348 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Contents

  • A nation of shopkeepers
  • Food of the gods
  • Wretched little victims of the workhouses
  • They did not show us any mercy
  • Absolutely pure, therefore the best
  • Chocolate that could melt in the mouth
  • Machinery creates wealth but destroys men
  • Money seems to disappear like magic
  • Chocolate empires
  • I'll stake everything on chocolate!
  • Great wealth is not to be desired
  • A serpentine and malevolent cocoa magnate
  • The chocolate man's utopia
  • That monstrous trade in flesh and blood
  • God could have created us sinless
  • This company isn't big enough for both of us
  • I pray for snickers
  • American tanks were on the lawn
  • The quaker voice could still be heard
  • They'd sell for 20p
  • Gone. And it was so easy.