.... Early French treatises about consuming coffee, chocolate, and tea reflect a desire to normalize them and their entrepreneurial practitioners, while at the same time extoling their exotic charm. This essay argues that these treatises — part chemistry book, part guide to preparation and serving, and part...

...Edmund Valentine Campos This essay explores the early English encounter with chocolate, a beverage associated with New World and Spanish tastes, and popular among English recusants returned from Spanish service. In particular, it follows the career of Thomas Gage a Dominican priest who had spent...

... should focus on the intricate transnational factors at issue in the production of these intriguing yet understudied works, recuperating the notion of liter- ary influence or transmission as ideological vectors. Chocolate is considered by Edmund Campos as illustrative of the economic...

...”: Virtue Trouble from Chaucer to Shakespeare  303 – 334 Duncan, Helga L. “Here at the Fringe of the Forest”: Staging Sacred Space in As You Like It  121 – 144 Jones, Christine A. Exotic Edibles: Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, and the Early Modern French How-to  623 – 653 Kermode, Lloyd Edward...

... with distant places — the Levant, Far East, and Mesoamerica —  are manifest in the ways that new, exotic beverages (coffee, tea, chocolate) were incorporated into local markets, facilitated by the creation of practi- tioners whose expertise transcended national and local identities. In how-­to guides...

... 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...

...: the beans from a tree that the Nicaraguans dry and grind up to make a drink are cacauate, though he thinks this liquefied chocolate is fit only for pigs (121/149 – 50). Similarly, although he thinks the black vegetables 146 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 41.1 / 2011 Figure 2...

... incorported parts of his presentation at that panel into “Chocolate City,” in Scenes of Instruction (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999), 85–126. The present essay reproduces examples and argument from that response, as well as from a separate presentation...