Chocolate History

Recently, traces of cocoa have been found in pottery from the Maya civilization, dating from 600 years before Jesus Christ! Scarce commodity like gold and currency exchange, food of the gods and secret pleasure reserved for the great kings of Europe ... provided that the history of chocolate does not date from yesterday!



THE FOOD OF THE GODS

Before the chocolate, there was first the cocoa. Or rather, the tree whose fruits are the cocoa tree from four to eight meters high, which drove thousands of years in the jungles of Central America long before Europeans arrived.

The Maya, the original inhabitants of the country, called the tree Cacahuaquchtl, which meant colloquially as "cocoa", but also the "Tree". In those times, the Mayans worshiped gods who, like all the gods of the world, do not feed like ordinary mortals. In Olympus Greek for example, was the ambrosia of immortality; in Mexico and Guatemala, we had this state to the decoction of kernels of the tree which fell within the maintenance care of Quetzalcoatl, the extraordinary Plumed Serpent, god of heaven gardener. And if one has never really knew the recipe for ambrosia, the preparation of tchacahoua, as it was in Mayan or Aztec tchocoatl, was known to all, at least by hearsay. For the gods, in their generosity, enabled the elite of the nation, well codified in circumstances, consume their food to have miraculous powers.

The scientific name is Theobroma Cacao, which means "food of the Gods". No wonder then that the most popular feast of the world is still adorned with such virtues!