Feasting with foam: Ceremonial drinks of cacao, maize, and pataxte cacao

Pre-Columbian Foodways: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Food, Culture, and Markets in Ancient Mesoamerica

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 315-343

  Green, Judith Strupp ^a  

^a San Diego Museum of Man   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0471-3_13     Document Type: Chapter

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