Literature Gallery
- “Monkeys were vital to cacao ecology since they spread the seeds; they were also associated with the creativity in traditional Mesoamerica beliefs.” page 2 Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures. Figure 0.1 caption.
- “In 1627, the courtier Fransico de Quevedo, a biting satirist and devotee of both goods, made an ugly joke of it. “The devil of tobacco and the devil of chocolate,” he wrote, “told me that they had avenged the Indies against Spain,” wreaking more harm with the snuff, smoke, and chocolate drinks than the conquistadores “Columbus and Cortes and Almagro and Pizarro” had wrought across the Atlantic. He observed how these goods has transformed his compatriots’ bodies: tobacco habitues afflicted by “snuffling and sneezing” and chocolate-indulgers with gas and dizziness. Quevedo believed these physical symptoms marked an even more disturbing mmetamorphosis. European tobacco and chocolate aficionados had transferred their faith in Christ to these “entracing,” diabolical substances (which chocoholics “venerated” while smokers were “apprenticed for hell”).” page 3, Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures by Marcy Norton
