Food of the Gods: A Sacred History of ChocolateListen to this show In this week's show, we begin by travelling back to chocolate's earliest history in the Aztec and Mayan cultures. We hear chocolate evolve and transform through the ages and think about how we got to the 21st-century relationship we have with with this ancient food. Michael Coe, emeritus professor of anthropology at Yale, and his wife, Sophie Coe, authored The True History of Chocolate -- a work that has become the bible of chocolate history. Coe gives listeners a chocolate timeline, explaining its importance in ancient Mexico, Restoration London, and for WWII soldiers. We taste hot chocolate mixes and cook up a pot of homemade hot chocolate. Food trivia: test your chocolate knowledge Martin Christy, creator of the chocolate afficianado website seventypercent.com, talks about understanding and appreciating high-quality chocolate and gives us his suggestions for some really great bars to check out. On the dessert cart: Chocolate Joe and Double Ganache Stuffed Chocolate Cupcakes. A final note about celebrating chocolate's ancient origins by using it in savory dishes: Mexican mole (moh' - lay) sauce. Find out more about mole and get great recipes at The Mole Page. Here's my favorite easy mole sauce. I serve it with chicken thighs or leftover turkey, rather than the chicken wings in the recipe.
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