where does chocolate come from?

Question

I like chocolate so much ! but I don't know how long was it discovered and which kinds or country of chocolate taste best .

Answer 1

Chocolate, a drink so sacred that only persons of the most exalted rank could partake of it - such is the magnificent origin of the common cocoa and chocolate.
The cocoa tree was cultivated for centuries before the New World was discovered, by the Maya Indians, the Incas of Peru and the Aztecs of Mexico, and chocolate, the drink prepared from its seeds was the national drink of the Aztecs. The Emperor Montezuma liked it flavored with vanilla but the majority of people added spices of many kinds.

When Cortez conquered Mexico in 1519 chocolate soon became a favorite drink with the Spaniards, and as a result it was introduced into Spain and eventually, in the 17th century, to the rest of Europe.

It was, however, an extremely expensive drink, costing from ten to fifteen shillings a pound, an exceptionally high price in those days.

The reason for its costliness is not far to seek. The cocoa tree is very particular as to where it will grow and even today, with all the scientific resources that a man has to hand, it still grows only in a narrow belt within ten degrees of the equator. Another reason is that each tree bears only a few pods; in fact the average annual yield is only two pounds of dried beans, equivalent to a pound of cocoa powder.

So it was that when the first chocolate drinking house was opened in London, in 1657, it was frequented in the main by people of wealth and fashion.

The drinking chocolate popular in the days of Queen Anne was very different from the refined and palatable beverage we know today. It was thick and rich, and either spiced or very sweet, and made from the whole bean with its full butter content.

By the early nineteenth century cocoa butter was balanced by farinaceous additives such as arrowroot, and made in handy blocks from which the required portion could be scraped into the cup or saucepan.

It was not until Van Houten of Holland, introduced in 1828 a method of pressing the cocoa butter out of the cocoa bean that anything resembling present day cocoa could be prepared. In fact it was not until Cadbury's brought out their Cocoa Essence in 1866 that a pure cocoa was available.

As to the introduction of eating chocolate, it is only assumed that as chocolate was sold in blocks no doubt cooks - and others - formed the habit of nibbling a bit while they were scraping it into cups !

For some years, however, after Van houten had introduced his mew method of preparing chocolate, most manufacturers still continued to make it in the old way that is by adding a quantity of arrowroot or some such substance to counterbalance the fattiness of the cocoa butter.

In 1824 a young Quaker, John Cadbury, opened a shop in Bull Street, Birmingham, for the sale of tea and coffee. He nevertheless experimented in the cellar of his shop with cocoa beans and was soon selling his own cocoa and chocolate.

This venture was so successful that in 1831 he rented a small factory to enlarge his manufacturing capacity and, in 1847, he took his brother into partnership and thus was founded the world-famous firm of Cadbury Brothers.

Formerly the chocolate centers were covered by the "bowlandfork" method. The centre was taken on a light, pronged fork, dipped into a bowl of liquid two-chocolate and withdrawn.

A few of the most expensive chocolates are still covered this way, but practically all-popular assortments are covered by machines called enrobers.

The enrobing machine consists of a conveyor mesh on which the chocolate centers travel through a cascade of liquid chocolate after which any identification marking or decorations are added, when they are then ready for packing.

Answer 2

Cacao bean.
Theobroma cacao: the scientific name for the cacao plant, meaning "Food of the Gods"

The cacao plant grows in warm, high-moisture areas, specifically tropical rain forests and within 20 degrees north and south of the equator. The mean temperature range for cacao-growing climates is 64 to 89 degrees (Farenheit), and rainfall is 1,250 to 3,000 mm per year. Cacao trees thrive in shaded areas, but don't tolerate strong winds very well.

And Belgian chocolates are famous. To me all chocolates taste good.

Answer 3

You need to enter 'chocolate' into a search engine and read up on the subject.

Answer 4

strawberry milk is an evil brew made via skill of faculty nurses thats particularly basically strawberry cough syrup mixed with peptobismal so they could trick us into taking medicine. basically kidding all human beings is unsleeping it comes from cows that ate lots strawberries that they grew to grow to be pink.

Answer 5

its coming from oldies french women and the best test Swiss chocolate

Answer 6

see every thing about chocolate

Answer 7

Most of mine comes from Asda's xx

Answer 8

the best choclat is from swizerland..and it comes from a plant thats all i know :)

Answer 9

coco beans and milk

Answer 10

the inkas drunk chocolat too