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The history of chocolate - Deanna Pucciarelli

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If you can't imagine life without chocolate,

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you're lucky you weren't born before the 16th century.

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Until then, chocolate only existed in Mesoamerica

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in a form quite different from what we know.

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As far back as 1900 BCE,

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the people of that region had learned to prepare the beans

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of the native cacao tree.

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The earliest records tell us the beans were ground

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and mixed with cornmeal and chili peppers

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to create a drink -

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not a relaxing cup of hot cocoa,

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but a bitter, invigorating concoction frothing with foam.

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And if you thought we make a big deal about chocolate today,

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the Mesoamericans had us beat.

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They believed that cacao was a heavenly food

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gifted to humans by a feathered serpent god,

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