tailieunhanh - The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa

When one thinks of the marvellously nourishing and stimulating virtue of cocoa, and of the exquisite and irresistible dainties prepared from it, one cannot wonder that the great Linnæus should have named it theo broma, "the food of the gods." No other natural product, with the exception of milk, can be said to serve equally well as food or drink, or to possess nourishing and stimulating properties in such well-adjusted proportions. Few, however, realize that in its stimulating properties cocoa ranks ahead of coffee, though below tea. As a matter of fact, the active principles of all three are alkaloids, practically identical and equally effective.[1] Each. | The Food of the Gods 1 The Food of the Gods The Project Gutenberg eBook The Food of the Gods by Brandon Head This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa Author Brandon Head Release Date June 10 2005 eBook 16035 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FOOD OF THE GODS E-text prepared by Clare Boothby Karen Dalrymple and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team http Note Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See or http dirs 1 6 0 3 16035 16035-h or http dirs 1 6 0 3 16035 THE FOOD OF THE GODS Greek _Theô Brôma_ A Popular Account of Cocoa by BRANDON HEAD London R. Brimley Johnson 4 Adam Street Adelphi . 1903 Illustration--Colour Plate EAST INDIAN COOLIES ON A TRINIDAD CACAO ESTATE CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. ITS NATURE 1 CHAPTER PAGE 2 II. ITS GROWTH AND CULTIVATION 25 III. ITS MANUFACTURE 45 IV. ITS HISTORY 71 V. ITS SOURCES AND VARIETIES 91 Appendices ANCIENT MANUFACTURE OF COCOA 103 BOURNVILLE WORKS SUGGESTION SCHEME 106 THE EARLY COCOA HOUSES 109 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS. PAGE EAST INDIAN COOLIES OF A TRINIDAD CACAO ESTATE COLOURED frontispiece CEYLON A HILL CACAO ESTATE to face 1 MAKE A CUP OF COCOA IN PERFECTION see p. 19 1 CACAO TREES TRINIDAD to face 3 ANCIENT MEXICAN DRINKING CUPS 4 MOLINILLO OR CHOCOLATE WHISK 5 CACAO HARVEST TRINIDAD to face 7 THE COCO-NUT PALM 8 COCO-DE-MER 9 LEAVES AND FLOWER OF THE CUCA SHRUB 10 GATHERING CACAO SANTA CRUZ TRINIDAD to face 11 PURE DECORTICATED COCOA MAGNIFIED 12 ADULTERATED COCOA MAGNIFIED 13 HOW THE CACAO GROWS to face 17 CACAO CROP .

• Lịch sử - Văn hoá
• ANALYTICAL APPARATUS
• CACAO HARVESTCEYLON
• A HILL CACAO ESTATE
• CACAO PODS
• CACAO TREES