Healing with Chocolate

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The New Spanish Table

By Anya von Bremzen

Published 2005

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It is of the greatest benefit, when made with the necessary purity of ingredients, for the stomach and the chest; it maintains and restores the natural warmth of the body; it nourishes; it dissipates and destroys malignant humors; and fortifies and maintains the voice.

—Juan de la Mata, Arte de Repostería (The Art of Confectionary), 1747

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