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Estudio exhaustivo de la historia del chocolate. La obra más completa sobre el producto que transformó los paladares de la aristocracia europea de los albores del siglo XVII primero, y del resto del mundo, después. Bebida de los dioses en el panteón mitológico de las civilizaciones maya y azteca, el chocolate conquistó muy pronto el favor de los hombres. Las semillas de cacao con las que se elabora se usaban también como moneda de cambio y simbolizaban así el carácter sagrado de su cultivo... Siempre envuelto en un aura de misterio que alimentó una encendida polémica sobre sus...

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