The Long History of Chocolate – Or, How a Sacred Bitter Drink Became Everything, and Is Slowly Becoming Itself Again
There is a version of chocolate that has nothing to do with the purple foil wrapper, the Valentine’s heart box, the Easter egg cracked open before breakfast. That version is older, darker, more demanding. It arrives in a carved vessel, frothy and bitter, spiced with chili, smelling of something ancient and particular. To drink it…