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locolates make the best gifts and there is a whole industry that is churning out these
goodies exclusively
for you. But where did chocolate originate from? We'll give you
the answers. The botanical name of the cocoa tree, from which chocolate is made, is
Theobroma Cacao. The first word in Greek for 'food of the Gods'. Depending on whom
you believe, this seductive, substance is an effective mood lifter and good for the heart
or the healer of spots, migraine, obesity and stressed-out nerves.
Now, we learn that chocolate has been around for a lot longer than it was previously
thought. Traces of it have been found in pots discovered in Mayan graves in Mexico,
some of which date back to 600 BC, which pushes back the earliest chemical evidence
of chocolate by more than 1000 years. Chocolate is made from the seeds or 'beans' of
the cocoa tree-the leathery cocoa pod contains upto 100 beans. Aztecs in Mexico and
Mayans in Belize worshipped the tree and used its beans as a form of currency. They
also hit upon the idea of crushing the beans, boiling them in water, then adding spices
and drinking the resulting hot, frothy liquid. In the 16th century, Spaniards who landed
in Mexico wrote of how the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma drank chocolate 'from pure
gold cups with great reverence.'
Gradually, chocolate became a part of European life. Rich aristocrats and the privileged
elite adopted the habit of drinking it during the day. Chocolate drink gained in
popularity when sugar was added to it and coffee houses began to serve it. Cocoa
plantations sprang up all over the world to meet the growing demand and as the export
of Cocoa beans increased, chocolate became more easily available to the ordinary
people in Europe.
The first attempt at making solid chocolate came in the early 1800s, when the cocoa
beans were ground into a powder, heated, sweetened and pressed into a mould. The
resulting product resembled the chocolate truffles we eat today but had a short shelf
life
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locolates make the best gifts and there is a whole industry that is churning out these
goodies exclusively
for you. But where did chocolate originate from? We'll give you
the answers. The botanical name of the cocoa tree, from which chocolate is made, is
Theobroma Cacao. The first word in Greek for 'food of the Gods'. Depending on whom
you believe, this seductive, substance is an effective mood lifter and good for the heart
or the healer of spots, migraine, obesity and stressed-out nerves.
Now, we learn that chocolate has been around for a lot longer than it was previously
thought. Traces of it have been found in pots discovered in Mayan graves in Mexico,
some of which date back to 600 BC, which pushes back the earliest chemical evidence
of chocolate by more than 1000 years. Chocolate is made from the seeds or 'beans' of
the cocoa tree-the leathery cocoa pod contains upto 100 beans. Aztecs in Mexico and
Mayans in Belize worshipped the tree and used its beans as a form of currency. They
also hit upon the idea of crushing the beans, boiling them in water, then adding spices
and drinking the resulting hot, frothy liquid. In the 16th century, Spaniards who landed
in Mexico wrote of how the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma drank chocolate 'from pure
gold cups wit