Chocolate Fads, Folklore, & Fantasies: 1,000+ Chunks of Chocolate Information (Haworth Popular Culture) [Hardcover]

Frank Hoffmann (Author), Linda K Fuller (Author), Beulah B Ramirez (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 10, 1994 | Series: Haworth Popular Culture

Chocolate Fads, Folklore & Fantasies is the low-cal answer to satisfying chocolate cravings. Documenting the chocolate phenomenon by means of 1,000+ chocolate chunks of information, this tempting book discusses:

• Chocolate Fads: chocolate books, chocolate goodies (cakes, candy, cookies, ice cream), chocolate clubs, chocolate festivals, chocolate fund-raising, chocolate marketing, chocolate media, and chocolate novelties
• Chocolate Folklore: chocolate companies, chocolate history, chocolate nutrition, chocolate moguls, chocolate quotes, chocolate tips, chocolate trivia, and chocolate types
• Chocolate Fantasies: chocoholism, chocolate feasts, chocolate love, chocolate parties, chocolate promotions, and chocolate psychology. At the end of the book is a 200-item Chocoquiz, in the style of Trivial Pursuit, so that readers can use the book as a reference source to know everything there is to know about chocolate.
  
  Reference sections include acknowledgments to chocolate manufacturers, chocolate-related companies, a listing of chocolate publications (media articles, children's books, chocolate guides, cookbooks, chocolate humor, and chocolate specialities), and an impressive list of addresses and telephone numbers for more than 100 chocolate and chocolate-related companies. All chocoholics, out of the closet or not, will want to read this book. Chocolate Fads, Folklore & Fantasies promises to be the last word in chocolate, no fudging!

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Sound bites for chocolate lovers. The book gives serious attention to documenting the many sources of bake-offs, clubs, festivals, novelties, statistics, companies, and sources and studies relating to chocolate. It ends with a 200-item "chocoquiz." Those wanting a "real" reference book on the product itself will be best served by Chocolate, Cocoa and Confectionary Science and Technology by Bernard Minifie (1982). The most useful material is the listing of worldwide companies and the marketing information. An overly long chapter on fantasies tells of a chocolate therapy session where members reveal their deepest feeling about chocolate. Iva Freeman

Product Details

• Hardcover: 276 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (May 10, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560243376
• ISBN-13: 978-1560243373
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #614,781 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Linda K. Fuller, Ph.D.
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Linda K. Fuller, Professor Emerita in the Communications Department of Worcester State College and a Senior Fellow at Northeastern University since 2003, earned a B.A. in American Studies from Skidmore College, an M.A. in Human Technology from American International College, and a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Massachusetts. A Fulbright Senior Fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 1996 and a Fulbright Senior Researcher on HIV/AIDS in Dakar, Senegal, in 2002, she was invited to lead a workshop on ethnicity at the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) in Durban, South Africa. Linda and her husband, Eric, have three sons, two daughters-in-law, three granddaughters, a black lab, and a Siamese cat. Responsible for 250+ professional publications and conference reports, she is the author/ (co-)editor of the following:
* Beyond the Stars: Studies in American Popular Film (1990 - 1996); a five-volume series
* Communicating Comfortably: Your Guide to Overcoming Speaking and Writing Anxieties (1990)
* The Cosby Show: Audiences, Impact, Implications (1992)
* Community Television in the United States: A Sourcebook on Public, Educational, and Governmental Access (1994)
* Chocolate Fads, Folklore, and Fantasies (1994)
* Communicating About Communicable Diseases (1995)
* Media-Mediated Relationships: Straight and Gay, Mainstream and Alternative Perspectives (1996)
* Dictionary of Quotations in Communications (1997)
* Women and AIDS: Negotiating Safer Practices, Care, and Representation (1998)
* Media-Mediated AIDS (2002)
* National Days/National Ways: Historical, Political, and Religious Celebrations Around the World (2004)
* Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender: Historical Perspectives and Media Representations (2006)
* Community Media: International Perspectives (2007)
* African Women's Unique Vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS: Communication Perspectives and Promises (2008)
* Sportscasters/Sportscasting: Practices and Principles (2008)
* Exercises in Sportscasting (2008)
* Sexual Sports Rhetoric: Historical and Media Contexts of Violence (2009)
* Sexual Sports Rhetoric: Global and Universal Contexts (2009)
* Tsunami Communication: (Inter)personal/intercultural, Media, Technical, Ethical, Philanthropic, Development, and Personal Responses (2010)
* Women, War, and Violence: Personal Perspectives and Global Activism (2010)

Check out her sports website: http://www.LKFullerSport.com.