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The history of chocolate - Deanna Pucciarelli
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If you can't imagine life without chocolate,
you're lucky you weren't born before the 16th century.
Until then, chocolate only existed in Mesoamerica
in a form quite different from what we know.
As far back as 1900 BCE,
the people of that region had learned to prepare the beans
of the native cacao tree.
The earliest records tell us the beans were ground
and mixed with cornmeal and chili peppers
to create a drink -
not a relaxing cup of hot cocoa,
but a bitter, invigorating concoction frothing with foam.
And if you thought we make a big deal about chocolate today,
the Mesoamericans had us beat.
They believed that cacao was a heavenly food
gifted to humans by a feathered serpent god,
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