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Cacao

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  • The Indian Nectar, or, A discourse concerning Chocolata : Wherein the Nature of the Cacao-nut, and the other Ingredients of that Composition, is examined, and stated according to the Judgment and Experience of the Indians, and Spanish writers, who lived in the Indies, and others; with sundry additional Observations made in England: The ways of compounding and preparing Chocolata are enquired into; its Effects, as to its alimental and Venereal quality, as well as Medicinal (especially in Hypochondriacal Melancholy) are fully debated. Together with a Spagyrical Analysis of the Cacao-nut, performed by that excellent Chymist, Monsieur le Febure, Chymist to His Majesty. / By Henry Stubbe.
  • Fruit of the cacao tree and a Guatemalan almond tree. Drawing by Thomas Malie, 1730.
  • Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.): fruiting and flowering branch with separate numbered sections of flowers, fruit and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • "Maravilla cocoa" : sole proprietors, Taylor Brothers, London.
  • Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.): fruiting and flowering branch with separate numbered sections of flowers, fruit and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
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    Dell'uso e dell'abuso del caffé : dissertazione storico fisico medica / Giovanni Dalla Bona ; prefazione alla ristampa della seconda edizione di Giovanni Zaffignani.

    Dalla Bona, Giovanni, 1712-1786. | Date: 1999
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    The economics of chocolate / edited by Mara P. Squicciarini and Johan Swinnen.

    | Date: 2016
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    Epps' reference book of facts and figures : money, weights, measures, interest, geographical, asronomical / James Epps & Co. Ltd.

    James Epps & Co. | Date: [1920?]
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    Advice medical, and economical, relative to the purchase and consumption of tea, coffee, and chocolate; wines, and malt liquors: including tests to detect adulteration. Also remarks on water. With directions to purify it for domestic use / by J. Stevenson.

    Stevenson, J. | Date: 1830
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    Les sucres : le café, le thé, le chocolat / A.-L. Girard.

    Girard, A. L. (Aristide Leon), 1860- | Date: 1907
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