[Sca-cooks] Research on Period Chocolate
Johnna Holloway
johnnae at mac.com
Tue Mar 10 10:51:05 PDT 2009
Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma is even found on Amazon these days.
Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke (Dodo Press) (Paperback)
by Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma (Author), James Wadsworth
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_2?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=James%20Wadsworth>
(Translator)
This would be the 1652 edition that was published in London. It was
originally part of a longer work on drinks.
You can even have it Auto-delivered wirelessly to Kindle.
Johnnae
Johnna wrote this am:
> Antonio Colomenero de Ledesma's Curioso.... was translated and
> published in English in 1640.
>
> Colmenero de Ledesma, Antonio.
> A curious treatise of the nature and quality of chocolate. VVritten in
> Spanish by Antonio Colmenero, doctor in physicke and chirurgery. And
> put into English by Don Diego de Vades-forte.
> Publication Info: Imprinted at London : By I. Okes, dwelling in Little
> St. Bartholomewes, 1640.
>
> It's part of EEBO and EEBO-TCP. There are also two later editions in
> EEBO.
>
> Johnnae
>
>
> David Friedman wrote:
>> Master Raymond von dem Lowengrab recently posted to a West Kingdom
>> list, describing some work he was doing on a period description of
>> making a chocolate drink. I asked if he would like me to post it
>> here, and he said he would. For anyone who wants to correspond with
>> him directly, his email address is:
>> snipped
>> I have held the translation to this point as the next paragraph
>> begins to describe the work/ observations of Antonio Colomenero de
>> Ledesma's Curioso tratado de la naturaleza y calidad del chocolate
>> published in Madrid in 1631- outside of our cut off point if 1600 is
>> to be accepted.
>>
>>
>
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