“Must Read” Reading List & Sources | #PSC 229
OVERVIEW: Online reading lists mostly consist of physical books. In Episode 229 of #PodSaveChocolate I’ll take a look at some of my hard-to-find and must-read recommendations and reveal where to go look for (and download) hard-to-find and peer-reviewed resources - FOR FREE. [ UPDATED ]
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Episode 229
I have published dedicated Reading List posts in the past (search for “Reading List” to find them), as well making book recommendations in dozens of other posts. Most of those recommendations were physical books, and most of those come wrapped up in Amazon Affiliate Links.
Not in this post. Not in this episode.
I am going to do something different in this post, which is to recommend some of my “must read” books, articles, and research papers that are difficult to find in physical form.
- What are those must reads?
- Why do I think they are must reads?
- And, where you can go to download FREE copies for yourself.
Resources
Recommended print books w/Amazon Affiliate Links
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus / Charles C Mann
- 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created / Charles C Mann
- One Cacao Tree: a guide to backyard cocoa, tiny fermentations, and making chocolate in the tropics / Raven Hanna
- Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A Cultural History of Cacao / Ed. Cameron L McNeil
- The Chocolate Tree, Revised and Expanded Edition: A Natural History of Cacao / Allen M Young
Research Sources & some recommended downloads
- Geographic and Genetic Population Differentiation of the Amazonian Chocolate Tree (Theobroma cacao L) / Motamayor, et al
- Insight into the Wild Origin, Migration and Domestication History of the Fine Flavour Nacional Theobroma cacao L. Variety from Ecuador / R G Loor Solarzano, et al
- Understanding American premium chocolate consumer perception of craft chocolate and desirable product attributes using focus groups and projective mapping / Allison L Brown, et al
- Chocolate and Health-Related Quality of Life: A Prospective Study / Teresa Balboa-Castillo, et al.
- Drivers of cadmium accumulation in Theobroma cacao L. beans: A quantitative synthesis of soil-plant relationships across the Cacao Belt / Jordon Wade, et al
- A revisited history of cacao domestication in pre-Columbian times revealed by archaeogenomic approaches / Claire Lanaud, et al
- search for chocolate, cocoa, researcher name – many can be accessed immediately, some require that you contact an author for access
PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
- Cacao use and the San Lorenzo Olmec / Terry G Powis, et al
- Cacaos and chocolates in the United States of America / Professor Nemo
- Cocoa and Chocolate: Their History from Plantation / Arthur W Knapp
- Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke / Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma
- The natural history of coffee, chocolate, thee, ... (1682) / John. Chamber layne
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