Erstellt am: 14. 2. 2015 - 10:50 Uhr

Today's Webtip: Chocolate

A look at the early days of that wonderful thing. A story of medicine and marketing.

Fons and followers of dietary fads and things like super foods are probably more than familiar with the idea of Cocoa Beans as a miracle food. A relatively recent development that actually mirrors the history of chocolate's emergence in the European market.

Once upon a time a cup of hot chocolate was a miracle cure. Meant to balance the humours and do all sorts of other fabulous things to those who could afford to consume it.

When Chocolate was Medicine: Colmenero, Wadsworth and Dufour looks at the history and literature from the very early days of the chocolate business. Days when saying chocolate was your drug of choice meant exactly that.