Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers

“Amazingly appealing… This is a delicious book, seductive as a tray of bonbons.”—Washington Post

In the early nineteenth century the major English chocolate firms—Fry, Rowntree, and Cadbury—were all Quaker family enterprises that aimed to do well by doing good. The English chocolatiers introduced the world’s first chocolate bar—and ever fancier chocolate temptations—while also writing groundbreaking papers on poverty, publishing authoritative studies of the Bible, and campaigning against hu...