Chocolate : sweet science and dark secrets of the world's favorite treat
2015
Book
"A fascinating account for teen readers that captures the history, science, and economic and cultural implications of the harvesting of cacao and creation of chocolate. Readers of Chew On This and The Omnivore's Dilemma will savor this rich exposeĢ."--Provided by publisher.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780544175662
- 0544175662
Description: 252 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 22 cm
Target Audience Note:
- Ages 12+
- Grades 7 to 8.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
- The world's most perfect food
- The cocoa woods: back to before
- Tree of myth and money
- Blood and chocolate
- Taming wild Amazon chocolate
- Doing well by doing good: chocolate in the industrial age
- The dark side of chocolate
- Candy, food, or medicine?
- In search of wild chocolate: new science meets ancient trees
- The mother tree and the accidental chocolate makers
- White beans
- Chocolate rainforests
- How to eat chocolate
- Chocolate timeline.
Control Number: 1207683
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]Subjects: