The Story of Food: Chocolate

Author: Alex Woolf
Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
Category: Children's, Cooking
Book Format: Paperback

Did you know that the chocolate bar you can pick up from any corner shop used to be a precious and exotic food that only aristocracy could afford? This book looks at the history of one of our favourite foods, from the ancient civilisations who made the first hot chocolate to today's global sweets industry. Other topics covered are health aspects of chocolate, how it is produced, its chemical properties and how it is traded around the world.An ideal leisure read, but also perfect for coursework and presentations.

Table Of Contents
1: What is chocolate?

2: Cacao farming

3: From beans to chocolate

4: How to enjoy chocolate

5: Chocolate and health

6: The origins of chocolate

7: The Spanish discover chocolate

8: Chocolate comes to Europe

9: The birth of an industry

10: The arrival of the chocolate bar

11: Swiss chocolate

12: The Hershey bar

13: Chocolate today

14: Timeline
About Alex Woolf
Alex Woolf has written more than 150 books, both fiction and non-fiction, mostly for children. Many of these have sold around the world and his words have been translated into over a dozen different languages. He has written on a huge range of subjects including Romans, chocolate, asteroids, sharks, Tudors, flying reptiles, soap, bees and acne. In 2019, he won a Fiction Express award for his story, Mystery at Moon Base One. Alex lives in North London with his family and two cats, Juno and Minerva.

(BK-9780750297929)

SKU BK-9780750297929
Barcode # 9780750297929
Brand Hachette Children's Group
Artist / Author Alex Woolf
Shipping Weight 0.2000kg
Shipping Width 0.210m
Shipping Length 0.260m
Assembled Length 26.200m
Assembled Height 0.400m
Assembled Width 20.800m
Type Paperback

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