Cocoa and Chocolate - Their History from Plantation to Consumer

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Cocoa and Chocolate, by Arthur W. Knapp This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Author: Arthur W. Knapp Release Date: August 18, 2006 [EBook #19073] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COCOA AND CHOCOLATE *** Produced by Michael Ciesielski, Annika Feilbach and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net COCOA AND CHOCOLATE Their History from Plantation to Consumer By ARTHUR W. KNAPP B. Sc. (B'ham.), F.I.C., B. Sc. (Lond.) Member of the Society of Public Analysts; Member of the Society of Chemical Industry; Fellow of the Institute of Hygiene. Research Chemist to Messrs. Cadbury Bros., Ltd. LONDON, CHAPMAN AND HALL, LTD. 1920. PREFACE Although there are several excellent scientific works dealing in a detailed manner with the cacao bean and its products from the various view points of the technician, there is no comprehensive modern work written for the general reader. Until that appears, I offer this little book, which attempts to cover lightly but accurately the whole ground, including the history of cacao, its cultivation and manufacture.