Are you upset? Eat chocolate. Chocolate helps many of us to uplift our mood. Chocolate in any of the product or eatables automatically makes us drool over it. The craziness for chocolate is seen in both children and adults and it doesn?t matter if it is chocolate cake, pastry or a normal chocolate.
The history of chocolate
Fuel for the Aztec and European war machines, a catalyst for massive industrial innovation and a tasty treat adored by the chocoholics across the globe. It was enjoyed by powerful emperors on both sides of Atlantic and filled the pockets of enterprising missionaries. With its roots as a spicy and fatty drink in ancient Mesoamerica how did chocolate eventually become the guilty pleasure of billions? Let?s find out.
Spread across the jungle of the Gulf coast of Mexico are enormous carved stone heads, these slightly chubbier versions of the Moai belong to the Olmecs and are nearly 3000 years old. The Olmecs are our original chocolatiers and we have linguistic and archaeological evidence liking them to cacao cultivation at least as far back as 1000 BC. They drank it as a bitter beverage rather than the solid sweet we eat today.
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