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and roasting Its consistency is like no other food’s: hard and dry at room temperature, melting and creamy in the warmth of the mouth It can be sculpted into almost any shape, and its surface can be made as glossy as glass And chocolate is one of the few examples of a food whose full potential was first revealed in industrial manufacturing The chocolate that we know and love, a dense, smooth, sweet solid, has existed for only a tiny fraction of chocolate’s full history The History of Chocolate An Exotic Drink The story of chocolate begins in the New World with the cacao tree, which probably evolved in the river valleys of equatorial South America The tree bears large, tough seed pods that also contain a sweet, moist pulp, and early peoples may have carried the pods into Central America and southern Mexico as a portable source of energy and moisture It appears that the first people to cultivate the tree were the Olmecs of the southern Gulf coast of Mexico They in turn introduced it sometime before 600 BCE to the Maya, who produced it in the tropical Yucatan peninsula and Central America, and traded it to the Aztecs in the cool and arid north The Aztecs roasted and ground cacao seeds and made them into a drink that was served in religious ceremonies and associated with human blood The seeds were valuable enough to serve as a form of currency The first Europeans to see the cacao bean were probably the crew of Columbus’s fourth voyage in 1502, who brought some back to Spain In 1519 one of Cortez’s lieutenants, Bernal Diaz del Castillo, saw the Aztec emperor Montezuma at table and in passing described the prepared drink: Fruit of all the kinds that the country produced were laid before him; he ate very ...energy and moisture It appears that the first people to cultivate the tree were the Olmecs of the southern Gulf coast of Mexico They in turn introduced it sometime before 600 BCE to the Maya, who produced it in the tropical... the Maya, who produced it in the tropical Yucatan peninsula and Central America, and traded it to the Aztecs in the cool and arid north The Aztecs roasted and ground cacao seeds and made them into a drink that was... Spain In 1519 one of Cortez’s lieutenants, Bernal Diaz del Castillo, saw the Aztec emperor Montezuma at table and in passing described the prepared drink: Fruit of all the kinds that the country
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