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

However, other things were also paid for, for example, cocoa. And it is that the Mesoamerican peoples used the cocoa seed as a method of change before the European conquest. The transition to this ...

tl, used by the ancient Mesoamerican indigenous people, which translates to 'bitter water.' The real taste of cocoa is bitter, not sweet as our brains often think. Later, in Greece, the cocoa tree ...

We have the ancient Maya of Mesoamerica (which was made up of countries ... misspelled cacao when they brought the beans home, and so cocoa stuck. 1 bean = 1 ripe avocado 4 beans = 1 pumpkin ...

With a gift for sensorial writing and a willingness to go the extra mile in search of his stories, Jacobsen breathes life into the global supply chains of farm-to-table tropical agriculture.

The Aztecs and Mayans of ancient Mesoamerica initially consumed cocoa beans as part of a sacred, bitter drink reserved for their elite. This practice eventually made its way to Europe in the 16th ...

National Museum of American History J. S. Fry & Sons Cocoa Extract Tin National Museum of American History Hershey's Chocolate Tin Smithsonian Archives - History Div Engraving of a Split Cocoa-pod ...