Indulgence: Around The World In Search Of Chocolate

Everybody loves chocolate. The food of the gods has never had a greater appeal among mortal women - and also some men - the world over. As a foodstuff, chocolate has been swooned over endlessly in print. But Paul Richardson's dark and delicious new study takes the subject into whole new realms of fascination. Using a unique melange of travel narrative, historical writing and literary gastronomy, he discovers a substance that still has much to say about the joys and agonies of our human debt to pleasure. In this delectably entertaining history of one of mankind's ruling passions, Paul Richardson concludes that, despite the wholesale debasement of a once sacred substance, chocolate has not entirely lost its mysterious capacity to bewitch.