The few chapters I read were about the crossing language barrier, crossing Medical barrier, and also the way chocolate conquered Europe. In the language barrier, military adventurers brought down the Aztec Empire, they’ve been able to deal with the terrifying Aztec military machine. They had to deal with whether to construct a new capital on the leftovers that once belonged to Tenochtitlan and maybe harnessing native labor on the newly founded land in New Spain. This was a very limited country; it was a kind of mix way of life took form. They had new words such as “Nahuatl” which stood for plants, animals, and even for previous dishes. Matching the creolization of the drink itself, chocolate’s preparation and consumption went through the same process of linguistic hybridization. After they undergone linguistic transformation, Spaniards were not discriminate anymore. In the medical barrier the European medical practice was the theory of disease and nutrition. It was originated by the classical Greeks and not to be put out in the west until the start of modern medicine and physiology in the first half of the 19 century. While cacao and chocolate had been discovered by Europeans of the renaissance, it was during the Baroque age that the beverage made its most successful journeys. It was in Baroque palaces and mansions of the wealthy and powerful that it was elaborated and consumed.
Gresham’s law states that “bad money drives out good.” (Coe 202)
One of the reason I like this quote is because it doesn’t only applies to chocolate or the books. It applies to everyone and especially the ones that let money control their thoughts and drives away the real personalities.
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