Chocolate The Series 1

The History

The botanists agree that chocolate or cocoa tree (Theobroma cacao) grown in the Amazon region and South America Orinoko valley in thousands of years ago. Mayans who first cultivated the cocoa tree. This habit is also brought when they moved to the plains of Yucatan. 

Aztecs and later introduces a bitter chocolate as a beverage. Cocoa beans mixed with corn or grapes that have been fermented and then served in a cup made of gold. Aztec emperors named Montezuma has a habit of drinking chocolate more than 50 cups of cocoa per day. Spanish colonizers named Hernán Cortés (1485-1547) when it invaded the territory initially interested in the gold cup of chocolate drink. But he also observed that the cacao, or chocolate Aztec also used as seed money. Therefore, he immediately set up some cocoa plantations.

Plantation known as "brown gold" was developed and the results are popular, so the Spanish control the cocoa trade in the 18th century. Then the chocolate was introduced to the European mainland and make the cake mix ingredients. In the mid-19th century, the Swiss began to develop and market chocolate as a snack.

Thus, chocolate is used only as a beverage and then developed into a snack that melts on the tongue. Switzerland also became famous as the best chocolate producing countries. Then the smart entrepreneur such as Hershey, Kohler, Lindt, Nestle, Peter, Suchard and Tobler chocolate became a brand name now famous chocolate made a major contribution to the industry. They found a more efficient machine processing method of processing cocoa and chocolate to find a better.