New Taste of Chocolate Cookbook

New Taste of Chocolate, a cultural and natural history of cacao with recipes, is a stunning cookbook that covers the history of cacao and combines its story with some delicious recipes and color photos.  ----  Format: Hardcover with dust jacket, 198 pages.  Copyright: 2001  Publisher: Ten Speed Press  Author: Maricel E. Presilla  Description: More than two hundred years ago, the great Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus christened the cacao tree Theobroma cacao, "food-of-the-gods cacao." Truly, chocolate is the closest thing we mortals have to ambrosia. But not all chocolate is created equal, a fact we instinctively know when we bite into an exceptional bar of chocolate. What qualities set fine chocolate apart from mass-marketed brands? To find out, we must first journey to the plantations of Latin America, where today's choicest chocolate is born.  Going far beyond the scope of anything currently written about chocolate, this unique book immerses chocolate lovers in the rich history an