author

Brandon Head

Best known for a lively early-20th-century book about cocoa, this little-known author turned chocolate into a subject full of history, science, and everyday fascination.

1 Audiobook

The Food of the Gods

The Food of the Gods

by Brandon Head

About the author

Brandon Head is the author of The Food of the Gods: A Popular Account of Cocoa, a work published in the early 1900s and still circulated today through public-domain and library collections.

The book explores cocoa from several angles, including how it is grown, processed, and understood in history and daily life. Modern library and audiobook listings continue to describe it as an accessible account of chocolate and cacao, which helps explain why it has remained readable for later audiences.

Very little biographical information about Head appears to be widely available in the sources found, so the writer is remembered mainly through this surviving work rather than through a well-documented personal history.