Dresden has not only been a place of upmarket consumption since the Baroque era, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries it was also the "capital" of the German chocolate industry and the centre of the associated mechanical engineering industry. The German food and luxury food industry had its centre in Saxony - and here above all in Dresden. For the first time, the cultural and economic history of chocolate and confectionery in Dresden are considered together in this publication accompanying the exhibition of the same name in the Dresden City Museum. Eleven authors deal with the history of consumption as well as chocolate production and the most important raw materials (cocoa and sugar), leading companies, impulses on the important Dresden packaging machine construction and typical Dresden products such as the Tell apple.
Edited by Erika Eschebach and Holger Starke, with contributions from numerous authors, Edition Sächsische Zeitung Dresden 2013, 136 pages - 5 €