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Welcome to the exhibit about the plants that give us coffee, teas, and drinks such as mate and cocoa. And about the female animals, cows, ewes and she-goats, who produce milk. |
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Chocolate/Cacao |
This 17th century illustration honors the debt the world owes to (from left to right) the Arabs for coffee, the Chinese for tea and the Aztecs for cocoa. This was published in "Dufour's Treatise on Coffee, Tea and Chocolate" (1688) and reprinted in Chocolate: An Illustrated History, by Marcia and Frederic Morton, 1986, Crown Books.) (HFHA Coll.)
This 1930's era promotional cookbook was sponsored by a Beacon, New York dairy. (Hughes Food History Coll.)
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