Happy Birthday, Hershey’s! Five Books about Chocolate
February 9 marks the 119th birthday of the Hershey's Chocolate Company, founded in 1894 by Milton Hershey in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. While one could celebrate this anniversary by eating chocolate, Toronto Public Library also has books about the subject.
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Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet by Carol Off
• eBook
Off provides the history of chocolate and examines the abuse and corruption in cocoa manufacturing.
Candyfreak: a Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond
• Large Print
Steve Almond takes a personal journey in search of discontinued chocolate bars and the rapidly disappearing regional candy makers.
The Chocolate Therapist: a User's Guide to the Extraordinary Health Benefits of Chocolate by Julie Pech
Pech outlines the ways that the consumption of chocolate may be beneficial.
Chocolate Wars: the 150-year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers by Deborah Cadbury
• eBook
The history of chocolate and the development of the chocolate industry are presented by Cadbury, a documentary filmmaker and descendant of the Cadbury family.
Sweet Tooth: the Bittersweet History of Candy by Kate Hopkins
Blogger and food writer Hopkins investigates her own love of candy and the exploitation in the chocolate industry.
3 thoughts on “Happy Birthday, Hershey’s! Five Books about Chocolate”
what about ” Chocolat ” by Joanne Harris?
That’s a great suggestion. I just included non-fiction on this list but there are lots of chocolate themed novels. Another list for the future!
my apologies, I did not realize this was just a nf list, but yes, a fiction list on chocolate would be mouth watering!