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Chocolate wars : the 150-year rivalry between the world's greatest chocolate makers / Deborah Cadbury.
Title:
Chocolate wars : the 150-year rivalry between the world's greatest chocolate makers / Deborah Cadbury.
ISBN:
9781586488208
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : PublicAffairs, [2010]

©2010
Physical Description:
xvii, 348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
A nation of shopkeepers -- Food of the gods -- Wretched little victims of the workhouses -- They did not show us any mercy -- Absolutely pure, therefore the best -- Chocolate that could melt in the mouth -- Machinery creates wealth but destroys men -- Money seems to disappear like magic -- Chocolate empires -- I'll stake everything on chocolate! -- Great wealth is not to be desired -- A serpentine and malevolent cocoa magnate -- The chocolate man's utopia -- That monstrous trade in flesh and blood -- God could have created us sinless -- This company isn't big enough for both of us -- I pray for snickers -- American tanks were on the lawn -- The quaker voice could still be heard -- They'd sell for 20p -- Gone. And it was so easy.
Summary:
Describes the history of the consumption of chocolate and examines the rivalry that stood between chocolatier dynasties throughout the world, including the efforts of the Cadburys and Kitty Hershey to create new products and dominate the domestic market.
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OCLC Number:
ocn515438429
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