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Title: The Food of the Gods
A Popular Account of Cocoa

Author: Brandon Head

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Language: English

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THE FOOD OF THE GODS

[Greek: _Theo Broma_]

A Popular Account of Cocoa

by

BRANDON HEAD

London: R. Brimley Johnson
4, Adam Street, Adelphi, W.C.

1903

[Illustration--Colour Plate: EAST INDIAN COOLIES ON A TRINIDAD
CACAO ESTATE]

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. ITS NATURE 1

II. ITS GROWTH AND CULTIVATION 25

III. ITS MANUFACTURE 45

IV. ITS HISTORY 71

V. ITS SOURCES AND VARIETIES 91

Appendices:

ANCIENT MANUFACTURE OF COCOA 103

BOURNVILLE WORKS SUGGESTION SCHEME 106

THE EARLY COCOA HOUSES 109

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS.

PAGE
EAST INDIAN COOLIES OF A TRINIDAD CACAO ESTATE
(COLOURED) frontispiece

CEYLON, A HILL CACAO ESTATE to face 1

"MAKE A CUP OF COCOA IN PERFECTION" (see p. 19) 1

CACAO TREES, TRINIDAD to face 3

ANCIENT MEXICAN DRINKING CUPS