Back to Mole: The Criollo Issue
There’s something else that should be thrown into the pot when talking about mole. It’s not just a question of Spanish versus indigenous. Certainly by the eighteenth century, the criollos…
Read moreWas Pulp Booze the First Cacao Beverage? Why I’m Doubtful
Well, after reading various newspaper stories about new information about the history of chocolate, I just couldn’t stop mulling over the idea that cacao (the tree whose fruit is the…
Read moreWas Pulp Booze the First Use of Cacao? An Intriguing Hypothesis
Beer of cacao pulp? That’s what the residues on pots in Puerto Escondido in Honduras suggested to John S. Henderson and Rosemary A. Joyce of Cornell and the University of…
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