Chocolate itself first began as Xocolatl, or “bitter water,” a spiced drink made from ground cacao beans, chiles and spices ...
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 ...
chocolate was first consumed in liquid form by the Olmec people of northwestern Central America around 1500 B.C. It was even enjoyed by the Aztec emperor Montezuma, and the Aztec word for it ...
Chocolate was a New World discovery ... and taxes were paid in cocoa beans to Aztec emperors. They prized Xocolatl well above gold and silver so much so that, when Montezuma was defeated by ...