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Crime: Human Trafficking,Social Issue: Harsh Realities of Life
Chocolate: Sweet Science & Dark Secrets of the World’s Most Favorite Treat
By Kay Frydenborg
Edition
Children’s Book Committee Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of 2016, STEM
By Kay Frydenborg
Hardcover edition
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN9780544175662
Awards and Honors NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12, 2016Children’s Book Committee Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of 2016, STEM
Chocolate: Sweet Science & Dark Secrets of the World’s Most Favorite Treat
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Out of stock
SKU
9780544175662J
This history of the beloved food explains how cacao also has been a currency, a royal drink, a means of diplomacy, a slave-produced commodity, and a boon to farmers. Time line. Bibliography. Web sites. Recipes. Black-and-white diagrams, photographs, maps, and reproductions of art and artifacts.
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