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Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers
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Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers (edit title/settings)

by Deborah Cadbury (Author) (edit contributors)

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With a cast of characters that wouldn’t be out of place in a Victorian novel, Chocolate Wars tells the story of the great chocolatier dynasties, through the prism of the Cadburys. Chocolate was consumed unrefined and unprocessed as a rather bitter, fatty drink for the wealthy elite until the... read more

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In mid-Victorian times, the English town of Birmingham was growing fast, devouring the surrounding villages and nearby woods and fields.

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Introduction

Part One
1. A Nation of Shopkeepers
2. Food of the Gods
3. Wretched Little Victims of the Workhouses
4. They Did Not Show Us Any Mercy
5. Absolutely Pure, Therefore Best

Part Two
6. Chocolate the Could Melt in the Mouth
7. Machinery Creates Wealth but Destroys Men
8. Money Seems to Disappear Like Magic
9. Chocolate Empires
10. I'll Stake Everything on Chocolate!

Part Three
11. Great Wealth is not to be Desired
12. A Serpentine and Malevolent Cocoa Magnate
13. The Chocolate Man's Utopia
14. That Monstrous Trade in Flesh and Blood
15. God Could Have Created us Sinless

Part Four
16. This Company Isn't Big Enough for Both of Us
17. I Pray for Snickers
18. American Tanks Were on the Lawn
19. The Quaker Voice Could Still be Heard
20. They'd Sell for 20p
21. Gone. And it was so Easy.

Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index

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  1. Deborah Cadbury (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Country: United States of America
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ISBN: 9781586488208
Page Count: 348

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  1. cadbury, 
  2. chocolate, 
  3. clb, 
  4. fry, 
  5. hershey, 
  6. history, 
  7. non-fiction, 
  8. pub. 2010, 
  9. quakers, 
  10. rountree 

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