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Desire for Chocolate
Desire for Chocolate | Care Santos
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Three women, three centuries and the same bone-china chocolate pot: Sara, the scion of a dynasty of chocolatiers from Barcelona, who prides herself on maintaining the family tradition; Aurora, the daughter of a nineteenth-century maidservant, for whom chocolate is a forbidden luxury; Mariana, the wife of the most famous seventeenth-century chocolate manufacturer, an official purveyor to the French court and the inventor of a revolutionary chocolate mill. Through her passion for chocolate, Care Santos takes us on a spellbinding journey through its evolution, from the cocoa bean's first arrival in Europe to the many sophisticated products derived from it today, and shows us how we can understand the great shifts in history through the study of small things. Luscious and addictive, this novel will delight the reader's senses from start to finish.
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IuliaC
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I admit I googled 18th century porcelain chocolate pot images and all I think of is my next cup of hot chocolate

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Cinfhen 😋😋😋 7y
TrishB lol 😁 7y
batsy 🍫💘🍫 7y
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Cinfhen It's a struggle!!! ❤️🍫 7y
TrishB 😁 good one! 7y
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tpixie GreAt cover!! 8y
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arlenefinnigan
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#DreamingOfAWarmerClimate #ReadJanuary
I'd much rather be spending today in a chocolate shop in Barcelona than in a freezing hospital office in Oldham.

Leniverse I think a chocolate shop in Barcelona beats a whole lot of locations! 😍😋 8y
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#booktober #WishICouldBeThere
I'm about to walk up a hill in the rain and cold to do a long day at work at Oldham Hospital. I would much rather be at a chocolatier's in Barcelona.

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Absolutely loved this. So inventive, such an ambitious broad scope, so beautifully written. I think my mum would like this (especially the historical stuff) but I'm not going to lend it to her because there's too much sex in it.

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