Read the following passage are made in an appropriate format. Chocolate.There are few foods thst people feel as passionate about-a passion that goes beyong a love for the "sweetness"of most candies or desserts:after all, few people crave caramel,whipped cream,or bubble gum. Chocolate is,well, different. For the true chocoholic, just thinking about chocolate can evoke a pleasurable respone. Two years ago, my wife and I travelled to the Amazon. On one of our expedition, our guide pointed out a cacao tree growing wild in the jungle. I had never seen one before. Looking strangely alien, dozens of yellow-green pods hung from the trunk and stems of the tree. Our guide picked one of the hand-sized fruits, strepped off the rippled outer layer with his knife, and handed us chunks of the fibrous white pulp inside- the fruit of the cacao tree. Two local children who had followed us into the forest waited impetiently for their own tuen. With practiced hands, a girl of about six borrowed the guide's knife, hacked off the covering from another pad, and shared a big chunk of pulp with her brother. Few people get to sample the fruit of the cacao tree. It was mild tasting, with a subtle, bittersweet chocolate flavour. Embedded in the pulp were dark, purple-colored seeds that, after being dried and pocessed, chocolate lovers like myself have come to "recognize" as "chocolate beans". The cacao tree(Theobroma cacao) is a native of Central and South America. Today, it is cultivated around the equator, and can be found in the Caribbean, Africa, South-East Asia, and even in the South Pacific Islands of Samao and New Guinea. By the beginning of the sixteenth century, the Aztecs had an advanced and powerful civilization locsted in what is now central Mexico. Many people beleive that the Aztecs first developed chocolate. However, chocolate goes back muck farther. The ancient Maya, who inhabited what is now parts of souther Mexico and Central America, certainly consumed chocolate. In fact, the word " cacao" is Mayan: as early as 500 A.D., the Mayans were writing about cacao on their pottery. Some think chocolate may by even older, dating back to the olmec civilization that preceded the Maya. The chocolate of these Mesoamerican civilization was consumed as a bitter-tasting drink made of ground cacao beans mixed with a variety of local ingredients, a drink that was sad to build up resistance and fight fatigue.
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