The medicinal and dietary use of chocolate in early America as told through 19th-century cookbooks

The Medicinal Use of Chocolate in Early

The Medicinal Use of Chocolate in Early North America

✍ Deanna L. Pucciarelli; Louis E. Grivetti 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 399 KB

## Abstract The medicinal use of chocolate has a long history in North America dating back to the 16th century. From Mesoamerican Codices and European Treatises scholars have determined that for hundreds of years the beverage called chocolate was administered to the sick and prescribed homeopathica