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Rise and fall of Cadburys (book review)

In nineteenth-century Britain three Quaker-owned chocolate companies dominated the market, Cadbury, Fry, and Rowntree.  The last of the companies to survive, Cadbury, was sold to the American company Kraft in 2010.   A distant relative Deborah Cadbury has written Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers  For a review, see 

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/entertainment/books/history-of-chocolatiers-informative-digestible-read-105093219.html

Posted by David Fahey on October 16, 2010 at 08:13 PM in Book Reviews, Britain, Chocolate | Permalink