Henry Stubbe and the First English Book on Chocolate

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  • C. F. Main Rutgers University

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https://doi.org/10.14713/jrul.v23i2.1387

Keywords:

Henry Stubbe, seventeenth century England

Abstract

Main considers the fascinating life and works of Henry Stubbe (1632-1676), with special attention to his book on chocolate, "The Indian Nectar, or a Discourse concerning Chocolata" published in 1662. Main characterizes Stubbe's book on chololate as "the kind of book [Robert] Burton would have written had he been Defoe."

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C. F. Main, Rutgers University

Rutgers University Libraries

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2012-05-09

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Vol. 23 No. 2 (1960)

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