Table of Contents:
- Beginnings and religion. Cacao use in Yucatán among the pre-Hispanic Maya / Gabrielle Vail
- Tempest in a chocolate pot : origin of the word cacao / Martha J. Macri
- Ancient Gods and Christian celebrations : chocolate and religion / Louis Evan Grivetti, Beatriz Cabezon
- Chocolate and sinful behaviors : inquisition testimonies / Beatriz Cabezon, Patricia Barriga, Louis Evan Grivetti
- Nation of nowhere : Jewish role in colonial American chocolate history / Celia D. Shapiro
- Medicine and recipes. Medicinal chocolate in new Spain, western Europe, and North America ; Chocolate and the Boston smallpox epidemic of 1764 ; From bean to beverage : historical chocolate recipes / Louis Evan Grivetti
- Chocolate as medicine : imparting dietary advice and moral values through 19th century North American cookbooks / Deanna Pucciarelli
- Serving and advertising. Chocolate preparation and serving vessels in early North America / Amanda Lange
- Silver chocolate pots of colonial Boston / Gerald R. Ward
- Is it a chocolate pot? Chocolate and its accoutrements in France from cookbook to collectible / Suzanne Perkins
- Commercial chocolate pots : reflections of cultures, values, and times / Margaret Swisher
- Role of trading cards in marketing chocolate during the late 19th century / Virginia Westbrook
- Commercial chocolate posters : reflections of cultures, values, and times / Margaret Swisher
- Chocolate at the World's Fairs / Nicholas Westbrook
- Economics, education, and crime. Pirates, prizes, and profits : cocoa and early American east coast trade ; How much is that cocoa in the window? Cocoa's position in the early American marketplace / Kurt Richter, Nghiem Ta
- "C" is for chocolate : chocolate and cacao as educational themes in 18th century North America ; Chocolate, crime, and the courts : selected English trial documents, 1693-1834 ; Dark chocolate : chocolate and crime in North America and elsewhere / Louis Evan Grivetti
- Colonial and federal eras (part 1). Chocolate and other colonial beverages / Frank Clark
- Chocolate production and uses in 17th and 18th century North America / James F. Gay
- Chocolate's early history in Canada / Catherine Macpherson
- A necessary luxury : chocolate in Louisbourg and New France / Anne Marie Lane Jonah, Ruby Fougére, Heidi Moses
- Chocolate manufacturing and marketing in Massachusetts, 1700-1920 / Anne Blaschke
- Boston chocolate : newspaper articles and advertisements, 1705-1825 / Louis Evan Grivetti
- Colonial and federal eras (part 2). Dutch cacao trade in New Netherland during the 17th and 18th centuries / Peter G. Rose
- Chocolate consumption and production in New York's Upper Hudson River Valley / W. Douglas McCombs
- Chocolate makers in 18th century Pennsylvania / James F. Gay
- Breakfasting on chocolate : chocolate in military life on the Northern frontier, 1750-1780 / Nicholas Westbroook, Christopher D. Fox, Anne McCarty
- Chocolate and North American whaling voyages / Christopher Kelly
- Southeast/southwest borderlands and California. Blood, conflict, and faith : chocolate in the southeast and southwest borderlands, 1641-1833 / Beatriz Cabezon, Patricia Barriga, Louis Evan Grivetti
- Sailors, soldiers, and padres : California chocolate, 1542?-1840 / Louis Even Grivetti, Patricia Barriga, Beatriz Cabezon
- From gold bar to chocolate bar : California's chocolate history / Bertram M. Gordon
- Caribbean and South America. Caribbean cocoa : planting and production / Janet Henshall Momsen, Pamela Richardson
- Caribbean chocolate : preparation, consumption, and trade / Janet Henshall Momsen, Pamela Richardson
- History of cacao cultivation and chocolate consumption in Cuba / Niurka Núñez González Noriega, Niurka Núñez González
- History of cacao and chocolate in Cuban literature, games, music, and culinary arts / Estrella González Noriega, Niurka Núñez González
- Establishing cacao plantation culture in the Atlantic world : Portuguese cacao cultivation in Brazil and West Africa, circa 1580-1912 / Timothy Walker
- Europe and Asia. Cure or confection? Chocolate in the Portuguese royal court and colonial hospitals, 1580-1830 / Timothy Walker
- Chocolate in France : evolution of a luxury product ; Commerce, colonies, and cacao : chocolate in England from introduction to industrialization ; Chinese chocolate : ambergris, emperors, and export ware / Bertam M. Gordon
- Production, manufacturing, and contemporary activities. Cacao, haciendas, and the Jesuits : letters from New Spain, 1693-1751 / Beatriz Cabezon
- From stone metates to steel mills : the evolution of chocolate manufacturing / Rodney Snyder, Bradley Foliart Olsen, Laura Pallas Brindle
- Adulteration : the dark world of "dirty" chocolate / Laura Pallas Brindle, Bradley Foliart Olsen
- Making colonial era chocolate : the colonial Williamsburg experience / James F. Gay, Frank Clark
- American heritage chocolate / Eric Whitacre, William Bellody, Rodney Snyder
- Twenty-first century attitudes and behaviors regarding the medicinal use of chocolate / Deanna Pucciarelli, James Barrett
- Fieldwork, methodology, and interpretation. Symbols from ancient times : paleography and the St. Augustine chocolate saga / Beatriz Cabezon, Louis Evan Grivetti
- Digging for chocolate in Charleston and Savannah / Laura Pallas Brindle, Bradley Foliart Olsen
- Management of cacao and chocolate data : design and development of a chocolate research portal / Matthew Lange
- Base metal chocolate pots in North America : context and interpretation / Phil Dunning, Christopher D. Fox
- Blue and gray chocolate : searching for American Civil War chocolate references / Louis Evan Grivetti
- Chocolate futures : promising areas for further research / Louis Evan Grivetti, Howard-Yana Shapiro.