[Sca-cooks] Research on Period Chocolate

[emilio szabo]

>> 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.

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