The Birth of the Chocolate City: Life in Georgian York

by Summer Strevens

One of the great names in chocolate history, Rowntree's, evolved from the humble retail beginnings of Mary Tuke, eighteenth-century mother of York's chocolate industry. This book explores how she was formative in shaping modern York as a city of confectionery manufacture, a city with a broader history in this industry than any other city in the UK. York emerged as the epicentre of an empire of competing chocolate kings. Strevens also insightfully...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445633469
• ISBN13: 9781445633466
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.1"