On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:16:56 -0400, James Silverton wrote:

> blake wrote on Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:02:57 -0400:
>
>>> On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 07:29:38 +0000, Allegrobox wrote:
>>>
>>>> What was it like? I mean for eating, not for drinking.
>>>> Particularly in 1895 if possible. Did it come in bars? If
>>>> so, were there squares on the bars? If not, and they came in
>>>> a box, did they have fillings, or was it more about the
>>>> shapes?
>>>
>>> While it may not have much info regarding what you seek, the
>>> "Encyclopedia of Food and Culture" is a great resource
>>> unmatched by any on line resource.
>>>
>>> http://www.enotes.com/food-encyclopedia/chocolate
>>>
>>> It is an in-print book, which costs about $900 last I looked.
>>> It has only recently been made available on-line for free
>>> (used to be by subscription only).
>>>
>>> This would be of interest to anyone here in
>>> rec.food.historic, and some people in rec.food.cooking as
>>> well.
>>>
>>> http://www.enotes.com/food-encyclopedia
>>>
>>> It is also downloadable VIA torrents.
>
>> bookmarked for future reference.
>
> A fascinating and amazingly comprehensive resource. I regret not
> thanking the original poster but I don't seem able to find the post.
> Like you, I've bookmarked it.

The original poster was from rec.food.histoic asking about
chocolate. I included his post in it's entirety. I posted the
encyclopedia reference, and cross-posted it to RFC. Then blake
removed the crossposting.

It is a great reference; I'm glad somebody thinks it's useful. I
sure do. I suspect it's so expensive since they had to get
permission and pay royalties to reprint some/all of the articles.

I used to have an on-line subscription to it through my library,
where they also had a hardcopy of the book in the reference section
(not available for checkout) but now it's free for all.

It would still be a great addition to my "library" <ahem>, and will
be if I ever see it for $150 or less.

-sw

-sw