[Sca-cooks] Research on Period Chocolate
Johnna Holloway
johnnae at mac.com
Tue Mar 10 04:55:33 PDT 2009
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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