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LECTURE: SIPPING LUXURY

The chocolate drunk in early Georgian England differed radically to today’s cup of cocoa. Heavily sweetened and spiced, and often mixed with wine, it was inherently luxurious as well as delicious. Thinkers and businessmen populated coffee houses, genteel ladies drank tea but chocolate houses were the decadent playgrounds of “noble rakes and cullies”. Exploring chocolate’s history […]