Chocolate : pathway to the gods

Dreiss, Meredith L. (Author). Greenhill, Sharon. (Added Author). Mitchell, Grant. (Added Author).

Summary: This takes readers on a journey through 3,000 years of the history of chocolate. It is a trip filled with surprises. And it is a beautifully illustrated tour, featuring 132 color photographs and a captivating sixty-minute DVD documentary. Along the way, readers learn about the mystical allure of chocolate for the peoples of Mesoamerica, who were the first to make it and who still incorporate it into their lives and ceremonies today."

Record details

ISBN: 9780816524648 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0816524645 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xi, 195 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 24 cm. + DVD (4 3/4 in.)
Publisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:	DVD written by Meredith Dreiss, Grant Mitchell, and Sharon Edgar Greenhill ; produced and directed by Meredith Dreiss and Grant Mitchell; Coproduction of Spyworm and ArcheoProductions. c2005.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-183) and index.