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…)
“Big Chocolate” is a pejorative business term assigned to multi-national chocolate food magnates, much akin to the terms assigned to “Big Oil” and “Big Tobacco”.
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