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Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer by [Arthur William Knapp]

Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Kindle Edition

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0082XZ462
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 12, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 231 KB
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Cocoa And Chocolate - Their History From Plantation To Consumer

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 5, 2008

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It is an interesting book, however it is almost 90 years od. It is interesting in a historical sense, but many of the unanswered questions in the book (like why chocolate does some of the things it does chemically or physically [like how tempering works]) have been answered since then.
All in all, as I stated earlier, it is interesting.

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Adam

Love the older references

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 29, 2019

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There’s a lot of very basic information in here but there is also a load of fun facts and debunked misconceptions.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 19, 2017

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This is a good book for those that like to cook or bake with this. ~MZ~

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 7, 2009

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The book was originally written in the 1920's so a lot has changed in the chocolate industry since then and it is a little out of date in some areas. But in the cultivation of T.Cacao it has a lot of useful information.

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Alek Dabo

Being about 100 years old, the text is interesting ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 30, 2015

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Being about 100 years old, the text is interesting and shows we knew already a fair amount about cacao production. Not ground breaking book, thought.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 14, 2015

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this book was interesting, but was published in 1920, so a bit dated. Even so, some things has not changed much since then.

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richard muszynski

free book but very outdated

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 15, 2013

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interesting but very out dated. copyright I think was in 1921 or something so its out dated but interesting. cant argue with free!

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A reader

Disappeared pictures?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 8, 2022

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Some of the picture titles have no pictures.

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Adrenalin Streams

Valuable historical work from the 1920's

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 17, 2009

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This is a reprint of a 1920 book originally published by Chapman and Hall. Arthur Knapp was a research chemist to Cadbury's and was obviously a leading expert in his day. In fact there are two other books on cocoa/chocolate written by him as well. This is a well written book, but I caution reading it until you have read the most recent learned books on the subject such as Stephen Beckett's "The Science of Chocolate", Sophie and Michael Coe's "The True History of Chocolate", and Allen Young's "The Chocolate Tree". This is because although a lot of what Knapp says about how chocolate is produced, from bean to bar, including the techniques of manufacture, remain in essence correct, there have been advances in our knowledge since 1920 and the reader might get a bit confused if he or she takes everything as true for today. The book still has much to interest the reader however and if you are well read on chocolate then you will find this book fascinating as an historical snapshot of what was known about cocoa and chocolate, and how the industry operated, nearly a century ago. We are now in an era where the growth in the production of fine chocolate is taking off. It is generally accepted that Criollo beans (which make up under 5% of the world's total) produce the finest chocolate, whereas most of the chocolate bought on the high street, and produced by the big names such as Cadbury, Hershey and Nestle come from Forastero beans, a hardier, heavier yielding, but less fine-tasting bean. However, not all agree on this point. Interesting therefore to hear Knapp, who worked for Cadbury, admitting back in 1920 that "The criollo yields the finest and rarest kind of cacao". A last few words: readers may find the author's views of happy natives working in the plantations a bit patronising, perhaps even offensive, and need to bear in mind when the book was written. Finally, if you want to research more into the origins of chocolate, Knapp has an excellent bibliography at the end of the book that lists all significant books on cocoa and chocolate, in chronological order, from 1600 to 1920.

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Sharon

interesting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 5, 2013

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I found this book very interesting and enjoyable, I will read more from this author. Thank you for writing and publishing.

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VERY POOR copy. The cover is neither that shown on ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 30, 2017

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Very poorly bound - where the writing disappears into book bind making a difficult read !! Lots of x pen marks in book at spelling and dramatic errors - Not worth 22+... pounds. VERY POOR copy. The cover is neither that shown on Amazon site - not brown, not with the girl in the factory. Waste of money !!

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