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Book

Chocolate : sweet science and dark secrets of the world's favorite treat

Call Number

  • 338.7664 F947 TEEN (WSQ)

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Publication Information

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]

Physical Description

252 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Audience

Grades 7 to 8.

Summary

"A fascinating account for teen readers that captures the history, science, and economic and cultural implications of the harvesting of cacao and creation of chocolate. Readers of Chew On This and The Omnivore's Dilemma will savor this rich exposé."--

Contents

  • The world's most perfect food
  • The cocoa woods: back to before
  • Tree of myth and money
  • Blood and chocolate
  • Taming wild amazon chocolate
  • Doing well by doing good: chocolate in the industrial age
  • The dark side of chocolate
  • Candy, food, or medicine?
  • In search of wild chocolate: new science meets ancient trees
  • The mother tree and the accidental chocolate makers
  • White beans
  • How to eat chocolate
  • Chocolate timeline.

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