El consumo de chocolate por parte de las órdenes religiosas en Asturias, desde el siglo XVII al XIX: algunos datos para su estudio

This article analyzes the consumption of chocolate in the diet of the Religious Orders, with a presence in the region of Asturias, in the Early Modern Age and the Contemporary Age. The cacao, raw material, was discovered and obtained in the American territories of the Crown of Castile. It is an exotic and precious product whose consumption will initially be reduced and will increase throughout the centuries of modernity gradually. This analysis will reveal whether the regular clergy in the region this privileged foodstuff consumed and in what quantity, serving as an indirect indication of the standard of living of religious communities. In parallel, it will be observed that religious centers and Orders stand above the rest in consumption and which had less access. Finally, possible to know a little more, diet Asturian regular clergy, something that no studies providing an overview of its evolution and its historical reality.