The illustrated history of chocolate, its discovery in the Americas and its traditions in Europe. The book shows the different types of cocoa and the process of turning them into chocolate and includes extensive recipes for desserts, ice creams and main meals in which chocolate is the main ingredient.

A visual tour through the history of coffee and the different ways of drinking it, whether for tasting or curing, the different types and origins of coffee, the different ways of roasting, packaging and marketing it. The book also includes coffee machines representative of history, from the oldest to the most modern of today's coffee machines. As a directory, the volume includes in its final part an extensive recipe book of recipes and combinations made with coffee.