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"Author Bazarte reviews the daily convent life in relation to the magical and religious connotations of food in the New Spain through the study of two colonial manuscripts ('Segundo miércoles de cuaresma en el Convento Jerónimo de San Lorenzo' (Mexico City, 1628) and 'Viandas y fatigas para el recibimiento del arzobispo Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta' (Puebla, 1772) from 2 different convents and that are presently part of the collections of Mexico City's Cabildo Metropolitano and the Archivo General de la Nación. The book contains also seven recipes along the anonymous poem dedicated to chocolate "Gozos al reverendísimo, excelentísimo y eminentísimo señor Don Tablilla de Chocolate'"--Provided by vendor.