Chocolate history

Chocolate reached Europe from South America. Local Mayan and Aztec tribes people used cocoa beans to make a drink called ksokolatl, which means “bitter water’.
Cocoa beans were used as a form of payment. The used as a from of payment. The use of cocoa beans as units of calculation is thought to have become established before AD 1000. On his fourth voyage to America, Christopher Columbus landed on 30 July 1502 in Nicaragua, and became the first European to discover cocoa beans.
These were used by the natives as currency and also in the preparation of a delightful drink. But Columbus, who was searching for a sea route to India, was not interested in cocoa. So fame for the discovery of chocolate went to the Spaniards.
After discovering South America, they immediately corrected and planting this “money” in Spain. Hernando de Oviedo y Valdez, who went to America in 1513 as a member of an expedition led by Pedrarias Avila, reports that he bought a slave for 100 cocoa beans.
Until well into the 17th century, chocolate was enjoyed only in liquid from. The drink that has today established itself as a great favourite especially with children was in those days actually a hard drink for hard men. It was strongly concentrated and made from cocoa beans, oil, honey and pepper.
The habit of drinking chocolate and also eating chocolate in solid form spread from Spain throughout Europe. But it took a whole century. The Spanish princess Anna married Louis XIII of France and introduced, among other Spanish customs, the drinking of chocolate at the French court.
From there it spread to other countries in Europe. Chocolate drinking clubs were set up in England, and these started the tradition of clubs for gentlemen. In Lithuania, chocolate began to be produced in 1888 when the first...

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