Chocolate: Food of the Gods 0313305064, 9780313305061

Table of contents :
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
I. CHOCOLATE AND PSYCHOLOGY......Page 14
1. Chocolate and Loneliness among the Elderly......Page 16
2. Locus of Control and Chocolate Perceptions......Page 24
3. Curing Irrationality with Chocolate Addiction......Page 32
4. Perceived Attributes of Chocolate......Page 48
II. CHOCOLATE AND LITERATURE......Page 58
5. Conventions of Chocolate as Weapons of War and Peace in Shaw's Arms and the Man, Straus's The Chocolate Soldier and in the MGM Film Version, The Chocolate Soldier......Page 60
6. Candy, Cheka, and Controversy: The Propaganda Failure of Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov's 1922 Novel Chocolate......Page 72
7. Chocolate for Rrose: Marcel Duchamp's Chocolate Grinder and The Large Glass......Page 80
8. Has Modernism Failed the Chocolate Box?......Page 98
9. Chocolate Imagery in Avant-Garde Art......Page 106
10. Inside the Pastilles of the Marquis de Sade......Page 112
III. CHOCOLATE COMMERCE AND HEALTH......Page 122
11. The Role of Chocolate in the American Diet: Nutritional Perspectives......Page 124
12. Bite-Sized Marketing: Candy Bars......Page 138
13. Proof That an Entrepreneurial Dream Can Come True . . . Through Chocolate......Page 144
14. Trends in Chocolate......Page 150
IV. CHOCOLATE LORE......Page 158
15. Cacao: Gift of the New World......Page 160
16. The Social and Economic History of Cacao Cultivation in Colonial Soconusco, New Spain......Page 168
17. Chocolate—Its Quality and Flavor (Which Is the World's Best Chocolate?)......Page 178
18. Location Factors in Cocoa Growing and the Chocolate Industry......Page 196
19. Chocolatissimo!......Page 210
20. Chocolate Recipes......Page 218
B......Page 224
C......Page 225
E......Page 227
G......Page 228
L......Page 229
M......Page 230
R......Page 231
S......Page 232
W......Page 233
Z......Page 234
About the Editor and Contributors......Page 236