E-text prepared by Clare Boothby, Karen Dalrymple, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 16035-h.htm or 16035-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/0/3/16035/16035-h/16035-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/0/3/16035/16035-h.zip) THE FOOD OF THE GODS [Greek: _Theo Broma_] A Popular Account of Cocoa by BRANDON HEAD London: R. Brimley Johnson 4, Adam Street, Adelphi, W.C. 1903 [Illustration--Colour Plate: EAST INDIAN COOLIES ON A TRINIDAD CACAO ESTATE] CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. ITS NATURE 1 II. ITS GROWTH AND CULTIVATION 25 III. ITS MANUFACTURE 45 IV. ITS HISTORY 71 V. ITS SOURCES AND VARIETIES 91 Appendices: ANCIENT MANUFACTURE OF COCOA 103 BOURNVILLE WORKS SUGGESTION SCHEME 106 THE EARLY COCOA HOUSES 109 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS. PAGE EAST INDIAN COOLIES OF A TRINIDAD CACAO ESTATE (COLOURED) frontispiece CEYLON, A HILL CACAO ESTATE to face 1 "MAKE A CUP OF COCOA IN PERFECTION" (see p. 19) 1 CACAO TREES, TRINIDAD to face 3 ANCIENT MEXICAN DRINKING CUPS 4 "MOLINILLO," OR CHOCOLATE WHISK 5 CACAO HARVEST, TRINIDAD to face 7 THE COCO-NUT PALM 8 COCO-DE-MER 9 LEAVES AND FLOWER OF THE CUCA SHRUB 10 GATHERING CACAO: SANTA CRUZ, TRINIDAD to face 11 PURE DECORTICATED COCOA, MAGNIFIED 12 ADULTERATED COCOA, MAGNIFIED 13 HOW THE CACAO GROWS to face 17 CACAO CROP, TRINIDAD " 21 ANALYTICAL APPARATUS 20 CACAO PODS (COLOURED) to face 25 CACAO HARVESTING 25 CEYLON, NURSERY OF CACAO SEEDLINGS to face 27 SAMOA: CACAO IN ITS FOURTH YEAR " 29 YOUNG CACAO CULTIVATION WITH CATCH CROP " 30