[Sca-cooks] Research on Period Chocolate

[Johnna Holloway]

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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