Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke

In 1631, a Spanish physician wrote the world's first book devoted to chocolate. Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma had seen the cacao bean's homeland, watched the drink prepared in the Indies, and set down everything: how chocolate was made, spiced, whipped to a froth, and enjoyed. Translated into English in 1652, his little treatise fed a craze that never ended. This is the origin story of the world's favorite indulgence, strange and wonderful in its seventeenth-century voice. Brew something rich and meet chocolate when it was still a mystery.