Food History: Food History - General (Cont'd)

Contents Beginnings and religion. Cacao use in Yucatán among the pre-Hispanic Maya / Gabrielle Vail -- Tempest in a chocolate pot : origin of the word cacao / Martha J. Macri -- Ancient Gods and Christian celebrations : chocolate and religion / Louis Evan Grivetti, Beatriz Cabezon -- Chocolate and sinful behaviors : inquisition testimonies / Beatriz Cabezon, Patricia Barriga, Louis Evan Grivetti -- Nation of nowhere : Jewish role in colonial American chocolate history / Celia D. Shapiro -- Medicine and recipes. Medicinal chocolate in new Spain, western Europe, and North America ; Chocolate and the Boston smallpox epidemic of 1764 ; From bean to beverage : historical chocolate recipes / Louis Evan Grivetti --

Contents The beginnings -- The spread of sugar -- Sugar in the New World -- The English and the sugar business -- Fighting over sugar -- A science of sugar -- Rum and politics -- The end of slavery in the Americas -- Emancipation's harvest -- The rise of technology -- Labour problems -- Sugar in the twentieth century -- Epilogue: the costs and benefits