... with valuable information on the cultures of colonial Spanish America in the early seventeenth century. The Spanish lore transmitted to England by reconciled recusants became an abiding cultural concern of colonial promoters upon England's acquisition of cacao-producing Jamaica later in the century. © 2009...

... relationships developed between Europe and the Americas, from cacao’s pre-Columbian function as an object of barter to its status as highly prized commodity for European consumers in a network of transatlantic trade. Campos charts the intricate array of ethnic, transoceanic, and inter- national...

... pharmacology to etiquette and were depicted (or self-­described) as sorcerers of good health and sophistication. Coffee-­men, as the group was known, worked many angles to turn three planetary wonders — coffee bean, cacao bean, and tea leaf — into tonics desirable to Europeans.6 Writings...

... Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008. 383 pp.; 400 color illus. Paper $24.95. McNeil, Cameron L. Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A Cultural History of Cacao. Foreword by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase. Maya Studies. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, (2006) 2009. xvi, 541 pp.; 91 pho- tos, 97...

...: Canadian Museum of Civilization, (2001) 2006. ix, 196 pp.; color and black-and-white plates throughout. Paper $29.95. McNeil, Cameron L., ed. Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A Cultural History of Cacao. Foreword by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase. Maya Studies. Gainesville: University Press of Florida...