First chocolate in its solid form was produced in 1847. Joseph Fry & Son found a way to mix some of the cocoa butter back into the dutched chocolate, and added sugar, creating a paste that could be moulded. The result was the chocolate bar such as modern one.
Chocolate means a number of raw and processed foods made from the fruits of the tropical Theobroma cocoa tree. Cocoa has been grown for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America, with its first documented use around 1100 BC. Most of all Mesoamerican peoples made chocolate (more…)
All of the areas that were conquered in XVI century by the Aztecs that cultivated cacao beans were ordered to pay them as a tax, or as the Aztecs called it, a “tribute”. The Aztec natives were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated (more…)
The term”chocolate” come into the English language from Spanish. How the word entered Spanish is less well-known, and there are many competing explanations. Perhaps the most cited interpretation is that “chocolate” comes from Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, from the word “chocolatl”, which many (more…)
Famous navigator Christopher Columbus took some cocoa beans to show Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, but it was Spanish monks who introduced it to Europe more broadly. Not until the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs was chocolate imported to Europe, where it rapidly became a recognized favorite. The first (more…)
