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A Brief History of Chocolate
When most of us hear the word chocolate, we a bar, a box of bonbons, or a bunny. The verb that comes to іs probably “eat”, not “drink”, and the most suited adjective would seem to be “sweet”. But for about 90 percent of chocolate’s long history, it was a beverage, and sugar didn’t have anything to do with it.
Etymologists the origin of the word “chocolate” to the Aztec word “xocoatl”, which referred to a bitter drink brewed from cacao beans.
Many modern historians have that chocolate has been around for about 2000 years, but recent research that it may be even older. The earliest evidence of chocolate consumption stretches back three or even four millennia, to pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica such as the Olmec. Last November, anthropologists from the University of Pennsylvania announced the of cacao remains on pottery excavated in Honduras that could date back as far as 1400 BC.
It’s hard to pin down when chocolate was born, but it’s clear that it was cherished from the start. For several centuries in pre-modern Latin America, cacao beans were considered enough to use as currency. Both the Mayans and Aztecs believed the cacao bean had magical, or even divine, properties, for use in the most sacred rituals of birth, marriage and death.
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