By Happy New Year everyone! Before we kick off with the posts for 2015, here is a look back at last years most popular posts of the last year 5. Just sneaking into the top five is a post all about the wondrous healing virtues of chocolate. As well as enhancing
Comforting Chocolate
In a previous post we explored the controversy that surrounded the consumption of coffee, did it dry and shrivel up male virility or did it augment and strengthen sexual prowess? Coffee was not, though, the only drink discussed and described in early modern England. In the mid-seventeenth century chocolate was