Product Description: You can never have too much chocolate—or too many chocolate recipes! From Mocha Squares to spicy Aztec Pralines and Fudge Cake with chocolate-caramel icing, this big, bold, beautiful volume features more than 90 treats that will tempt any chocoholic...read more

Product Description: More than 4.4 million tons (4 million mt) of cocoa beans are used to quell the worlds need for tasty products each year. But cocoa is used for far more than just chocolate bars. Readers will discover the history and origins of cocoa while they explore a diverse, useful culinary ingredient...read more

Product Description: Nothing is better than trying a new recipe that calls for ample amounts of chocolate. Author Karen Jean Matsko Hood has compiled an entire cookbook of truly mouth-watering, aromatic, mood-enhancing, indulgent bits of heaven. Your sweet tooth will thank you for taking extended dips in these delectable, decadent treats that will be sought after by all who come near...read more

From Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to Joanne Harris' Chocolat, from romantic gift to guilty indulgence, chocolate has a special place in Western popular culture. But what are the hidden histories behind this luxurious commodity? This book examines chocolate production from cocoa bean to chocolate box, illuminating the dynamics of gender, race and empire which have structured the cocoa chain. Using a varied range of sources, including oral histories, advertising material and archival documents, and drawing on the author's own relationship to the industry, this book reconnects the people and places at different stages of chocolate production from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. Opening with a critique of familiar images of chocolate presented in adverts for products from Kit Kat to Black Magic, Emma Robertson stresses the need to recognise the complex histories of empire and labour which have made such pleasurable consumption possible. At the heart of the story are the lives of women workers at two key sites: the cocoa farms of Nigeria and the confectionery factories of Britain. Focusing particularly on the operations of the York-based Rowntree firm, the author suggests how chocolate production brought the empire home to a small northern city. Chocolate, women and empire offers exciting new insights into the lives of women workers in a global industry and a new perspective on the relationships between Britain and West Africa. It will be invaluable to historians of British imperialism as well as to students of Women's and Gender Studies, Cultural Studies and Business Studies.

Product Description: Even experienced bakers can be intimidated by the demands of successfully working with chocolate, which requires an experienced touch and careful handling to achieve great results. You can teach yourself this complex and delicate art through hours of painful trial and error ...read more

Product Description: A masterclass that unveils all the techniques and secrets a chocolate lover could wish for, before moving on to the mouth-watering array of recipes—like Thyme and Honey Filled Chocolates and Madagascan Chocolate Ice Cream This much-loved confectionary's origins are covered first, from the quality of cocoa pods to the varieties of beans, as well as the importance of cocoa content, the difference between the three types of chocolate—plain, milk, and white—and how to appreciate the quality of chocolate...read more

A two-volume gift-set edition of works by the director of the Maison Debauve & Gallais includes The History of Chocolate, which evaluates the cultural development of chocolate throughout Europe and the world, and The Taste of Chocolate, a recipe-complemented guide to sophisticated chocolate consumption.

Product Description: Chocolate is a worldwide favorite in all of its forms and flavors, from bitter to extra sweet and light to dark; everyone enjoys the decadent flavor of chocolate.  Recent studies have proven the health benefits of chocolate, especially dark, and the flavor is delicious in all types of recipes...read more

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