What is Chocolate?
A dictionary answer is "processed ground and roasted cocoa beans".
The Spanish learned about chocolate in South America and brought it to Europe
in the sixteenth century.
Chocolate
Biscuits
cocoa
pods
Cacao tree detail, ninth century Mayan mural, Cacaxtla, Mexico
cocoa beans
At
that time it was simply a bitter, spicy drink. The Spanish added sugar cane,
then chemists got involved, grinding, processing, stirring the crushed beans
while adding milk and more cocoa butter to give the solid chocolate we know
so well.
Theobroma
- "food of the gods."
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