The history of chocolate - Deanna Pucciarelli
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-history-of-chocolate-deanna-pucciarelli If you can't imagine life without chocolate, you're lucky you weren't born before the 16th century....
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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 Mesoamericain a form quite different from what we know.As far back as 1900 BCE,the people of that region had learned to prepare the beansof the native cacao tree.The earliest records tell us the beans were groundand mixed with cornmeal and chili peppersto 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 foodgifted to humans by a feathered serpent god,known to the Maya as Kukulkanand to the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl.Aztecs used cacao b...
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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 Mesoamericain a form quite different from what we know.As far back as 1900 BCE,the people of that region had learned to prepare the beansof the native cacao tree.The earliest records tell us the beans were groundand mixed with cornmeal and chili peppersto 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 foodgifted to humans by a feathered serpent god,known to the Maya as Kukulkanand to the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl.Aztecs used cacao b...
