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Hershey and Kraft eye Cadbury (a chocolate lover's lament)

A chocolate lover's concern about the possibility that an American firm may buy Cadbury can be found here.

Posted by David Fahey on November 22, 2009 at 08:23 AM in Chocolate | Permalink

Chocolate, women and the British Empire (book)

Emma Robertson, Chocolate, Women and Empire: A Social and Cultural History (Manchester UP, forthcoming, 2010).

Posted by David Fahey on September 29, 2009 at 04:36 PM in Books, Britain, Chocolate | Permalink

Chocolate history (book)

Sarah Moss and Alexander Badenoch, Chocolate: A Global History (Reaktion Books, 2009).

Posted by David Fahey on June 28, 2009 at 10:11 PM in Books, Chocolate | Permalink

Chocolate in world history (book)

Sarah Moss, Chocolate: A Global History (Reakton Books, 2009). Commodity history of the popular candy and cooking ingredient and forgotten caffeinated beverage.

Posted by David Fahey on June 3, 2009 at 08:27 AM in Books, Chocolate | Permalink

Chocolate exhibition now at Raleigh, North Carolina

"Chocolate: The Exhibition," developed by the Field Museum (Chicago) is now at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, in Raleigh, from May 9 through September 7, 2009. For details, see here.

Posted by David Fahey on May 9, 2009 at 05:59 PM in Chocolate | Permalink

Chocolate at Principe (article)

Xan Rice, "Life, Liberty and Fine Chocolate: An Italian Entrepreneur Pursues Simple Perfection on a Tropical Isle," Utne Reader, May-June 2009, pp. 53-56.  Reprinted from New Statesman, January 15, 2009.  Discusses Claudio Corallo who has a cocoa plantation on Principe, the twin isle of Sao Tome.  Previously Corallo had grown coffee in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) and now grows coffee on Sao Tome.  He now is thinking of making rum too.

Posted by David Fahey on April 25, 2009 at 05:28 PM in Africa, Chocolate, Cocoa, Coffee, Italy, Rum | Permalink

Ethel's Chocolate Lounges in Chicago area to close

Mars, Inc., the candymaker, is closing the Ethel's Chocolate Lounges in the Chicago area, but is keeping open the ones in Las Vegas.  For more, see here.

Posted by David Fahey on April 6, 2009 at 06:45 PM in Chocolate | Permalink

Tobacco and chocolate in the Atlantic world (book review)

Gabriel Paquette reviews in the Times Literary Supplement (TLS), March 27, 2009, Marcy Norton, Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World (Cornell UP, 2008). Emphasizes Spanish colonial empire.  Based on University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. dissertation, 2000.  Norton published a related article in the American Historical Review in 2006.

Posted by David Fahey on April 4, 2009 at 02:10 PM in Book Reviews, Chocolate, Tobacco | Permalink

Chocolate in pre-Columbian New Mexico

Archaeologists have found chocolate, dating from 1000-1125 AD, in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, over a thousand miles north of the nearest cacao growing region.  For more, see here.  For a more detailed Los Angeles Times article, see here.

Posted by David Fahey on February 2, 2009 at 06:56 PM in Chocolate | Permalink

Chocolate's introduction to England (thesis)

Heather Ellen McMillan, "Possessing the Foreign: The Introduction of Chocolate to England" (M.A. thesis, University of Alberta, 2005).

Posted by David Fahey on January 9, 2009 at 10:42 PM in Britain, Chocolate | Permalink