Chocolate, our favourite confection devoured by the whole world, has a long and interesting history that goes back thousands ...

When a Spanish shipment of cocoa beans veered off course and was seized off the coast of Britain in the 16th century, its captors assumed the contents were sheep droppings and burned it.

It’s unclear who introduced chocolate in Europe first, although most historical accounts agree that it initially arrived in Spain. Some claim Christopher Columbus learned of cacao beans on his ...

Cacao is made from the beans of the Theobroma cacao evergreen ... so it is also grown in Central and South America and the Canary Islands in Spain. The tree has been used for food and medicine ...

It all starts with the cacao bean. Yes, we spelled that right - cacao is the Spanish word for chcahuatl, which is what Aztecs called the beans chocolate is made from. It’s thought that English ...