[Sca-cooks] Research on Period Chocolate
emilio szabo
emilio_szabo at yahoo.it
Tue Mar 10 14:03:18 PDT 2009
>> According to Juan, the former chocolateer, this translation does
>> eventually describe, at least roughly, how to make the drink. But,
>> the problem he's having is that the source tends to describe and
>> expound upon the nature of various ingrediants '...consumes
>> flematic humours..." is one of my favorites so far, and with the
>> archaic prose, he sometimes pulls his hair.
> You might mention, for what it's worth, that we might be able to help
> explain the references to phlegmatic humors, for example, in layman's
> terms.
In this article, which I have only gone through quickly,
http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/reprint/130/8/2057S.pdf
http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/reprint/130/8/2057S?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=chocolate&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=HWCIT
there is some mention of native mexican medicinal ideas, also in binary terms. I wonder, which system
Cardenas was relying on.
Apart from that, the article gives several early references to chocolate.
e.
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