Here is a selection of books which offer a background perspective on cocoa and chocolate, as well as celebrating chocolate in all its manifestations.  We will continually add to this list - so do keep looking out for more titles.

Cocoa

  • Cocoa: A guide to trade practices published by the International Trade Centre, Geneva.
  • Raising the Bar, Developments (the DFID magazine) developments.org.uk
  • Chains of Fortune: Linking Women Producers and Workers with Global Markets by Marilyn Carr. Published by Commonwealth Secretariat Library
  • Impact Report - Loraine Ronchi

Africa

  • Africa's Choices after Thirty Years of the World Bank by Michael Barratt Brown. Published by Penguin
  • Short Changed: Africa and World Trade by Michael Barratt Brown and Pauline Tiffen: Published by Pluto Press

Chocolate

  • How it's made: A chocolate bar published by Franklin Watts
  • Indulgence: Around the World in Search of Chocolate by Paul Richardson. Published by Little Brown
  • The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the secret world of Hershey and Mars by Joël Glenn Brenner.  Published by Random House
  • The True History of Chocolate by Sophie D Coe and Michael D Coe.  Published by Thames & Hudson
  • Harvest for Hope - A Guide to Mindful Eating by Jane Goodall, Gary McAvoy and Gail Hudson. Published by Little, Brown & Company
  • Charlie and Lola Comic Relief Book by Lauren Child. Published by Puffin Books
  • Chocolate - The Bean That Conquered the World by Vivien French. Published by Walker Books

Cooking with Chocolate

  • Chocolate by Linda Collister. Published by Ryland Peters and Small
  • Heavenly Chocolate by Linda Collister. Published by Ryland Peters and Small
  • The Chocolate Book by Helge Rubinstein. Published by Penguin
  • The BitterSweet World of Chocolate by troth Wells & Nikki van der Gaag. Published by New Internationalist

 

 
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