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  1. Suzanne Karr Schmidt @[email protected] ·

    Death By Chocolate Advent Calendar?

    #AdventCalendar2022
    #December21 Day 21/24

    Come-Hither Chocolate Advent Calendar!
    German merchant Cornelius Heilwagen's friends gave him many risqué illuminations for his 18th c. album amicorum. This "lady's" chocolate is so alluring that her romantic target's face was censored!
    #NewberryLibrary (Case MS 5471)

    Many early modern treatises were penned about the morality and healthfulness of chocolate, drinking and otherwise, once it became a fad.

    #adventcalendar2022 #december21 #newberrylibrary