Saturday, 31 January 2015

When Chocolate Was Medicine

When Chocolate Was Medicine


Chocolate has not always been the common confectionary we experience today. When it first arrived from the Americas into Europe in the 17th century it was a rare and mysterious substance, thought more of as a drug than as a food — pleasant-tasting, with recommended dosages prescribed by pharmacists and physicians, and dangerous when self-administered.

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