The true History of Chocolate by Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe pages 1-35

So far The True History of Chocolate is about the beginning of how people find out about chocolate. But before the story started, the author (Michael D. Coe) gave an overview of how his wife (Sophie D. Coe) wanted to write a book about the history of chocolate but after being told that she was diagnose with cancer. She dedicated her last days to the book, but after writing almost two chapters she died. Her husband Michael worked from her thousands of pages of notes and spent the next six months writing it. this book involves Columbus, the Conquistadors, the fall of the Aztec Empire, the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. When first introduced to Europe, chocolate was only for the nobles, who endlessly debated it nutritional and medicinal properties. Because of the dominance of the Catholic Church, long debates were held as to whether or not chocolate were actually a food and whether eating it broke the fasting rules in place at the time.
"The first part of this particular binomial, the name of the genius to which cacao ( the chocolate tree) belongs, is from the Greek and means food of the gods" (Coe 18).
I like this quote because it shows the meaning that chocolate had for the Greeks. During that time chocolate was only eaten by the Gods although it wasn't really clear who the Gods were.