Who & which country invented Chocolate???

Question

We know that Pizza comes from Italy. Also we know that Flan comes from the Romans. But what about Chocolate? Was it from the Aztecs? Or was it from the Germans?

Answer 1

Pizza doesnt come from italy..it was proven somewhere...i dunno

And Im guessing either the Germans / Belgium..ians
or france.

Answer 2

The Spanish Took Chocolate Home to Europe
In 1521, the Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés led his country’s forces in battle to conquer the Aztec empire. The Spanish victors carried many treasures back home with them—including cacao seeds and the recipe for the Aztec chocolate drink.

Within 100 years, the popularity of this frothy beverage spread to the rest of Europe, where it became a taste sensation only the wealthy could afford.

The Spanish invented a wooden stirring stick called a molinillo (moh lin EE oh) to whip their chocolate into a froth. They also added sugar to sweeten the bitter beverage.
The Spanish carried home other American foods never seen before in Europe, such as corn, chile peppers, vanilla, tomatoes, and potatoes.
Like the Aztecs, Europeans created special serving dishes just for drinking chocolate. (In fact, saucers were invented specifically to keep chocolate off of fine clothes.)
Like the coffee shops of today, chocolate houses became popular places in 17th century Europe to socialize and drink chocolate.
Wealthy people drank chocolate for breakfast. It was considered the height of good breeding to lie in bed and leisurely sip a cup of hot cocoa

Answer 3

The Aztecs were the first to make a chocolate drink but chocolate bars were invented later. Try the Cadburys site their museium gives lots of information too if you live near bournville in Birmingham.

Answer 4

I agree somewhat with 4antonniananne ? up to a point. I don't agree with the "Olmec's growing and harvesting" chocolate. Most at this time chewed the leaves of the bush, nothing more.

And, by he way, Pizza does come from Northern Italy. It was discovered by the American troops that came through there in the forties. They made it using just the crust and oil along with garlic, like a bread. The pasta sauce and other ingredients are American.

Answer 5

Aztecs ! watch the movie " chocolate " explains all

Answer 6

Chocolate is originary from meso america. The ancient Aztecs used it as currency - besides drinking it.

Answer 7

Central America and Mexico and yes it was the Aztecs

Answer 8

http://handmade-chocs.co.uk/who-invented-chocolate.html
chocolate as in the cocoa bean, or chocolate as in chocolate candy bars??
aztecs used cocoa beans first.

Answer 9

well the chocolate bean originated in south america, as it grows generally in warm humid environments, but it wasnt made sweet like we like it until the spanish came over and brought back the cholocate beans and someone decided to add sugar to it.

Answer 10

1500 BC-400 BC - The Olmec Indians are believed to be the first to grow cocoa beans as a domestic crop.

250 to 900 CE - The consumption of cocoa beans was restricted to the Mayan society's elite, in the form of an unsweetened cocoa drink made from the ground beans.

AD 600 - Mayans migrate into northern regions of South America establishing earliest known cocoa plantations in the Yucatan.

14th Century - The drink became popular among the Aztec upper classes who upsurped the cocoa beverage from the Mayans and were the first to tax the beans. The Aztecs called it "xocalatl" meaning warm or bitter liquid.

1502 - Columbus encountered a great Mayan trading canoe in Guanaja carrying cocoa beans as cargo.

1519 - Spanish explorer Hernando Cortez recorded the cocoa usage in the court of Emperor Montezuma.

1544 - Dominican friars took a delegation of Kekchi Mayan nobels to visit Prince Philip of Spain. The Mayans brought gift jars of beaten cocoa , mixed and ready to drink. Spain and Portugal did not export the beloved drink to the rest of Eurpoe for nearly a century.

16th Century Europe - The Spanish began to add cane sugar and flavorings such as vanilla to their sweet cocoa beverages.

1570 - Cocoa gained popularity as a medicine and aphrodisiac.

1585 - First official shipments of cocoa beans began arriving in Seville from Vera Cruz, Mexico.

1657 - The first chocolate house was opened in London by a Frenchman. The shop was called the The Coffee Mill and Tobacco Roll. Costing 10 to 15 shillings per pound, chocolate was considered a beverage for the elite class.

1674 - Eating solid chocolate was introduced in the form of chocolate rolls and cakes, served in chocolate emporiums.

1730 - Cocoa beans had dropped in price from $3 per lb. to being within the financial reach of those other than the very wealthy.

1732 - French inventor, Monsieur Dubuisson invented a table mill for grinding chocolate.

1753 - Swedish naturalist, Carolus Linnaeus was dissatisfied with the word "cocoa," so renamed it "theobroma," Greek for "food of the gods."

1765 - Chocolate was introduced to the United States when Irish chocolate-maker John Hanan imported cocoa beans from the West Indies into Dorchester, Massachusetts, to refine them with the help of American Dr. James Baker. The pair soon after built America's first chocolate mill and by 1780, the mill was making the famous BAKER'S ® chocolate.

1795 - Dr. Joseph Fry of Bristol, England, employed a steam engine for grinding cocoa beans, an invention that led to the manufacture of chocolate on a large factory scale.

1819 - The pioneer of Swiss chocolate-making, François Louis Callier, opened the first swiss chocolate factory.

1828 - The invention of the cocoa press, by Conrad Van Houten, helped cut prices and improve the quality of chocolate by squeezing out some of the cocoa butter and giving the beverage a smoother consistency. Conrad Van Houten patented his invention in Amsterdam and his alkalizing process became known as "Dutching".

1847 - Joseph Fry & Son discovered a way to mix some of the cocoa butter back into the "Dutched" chocolate, and added sugar, creating a paste that could be molded. The result was the first modern chocolate bar.

1849 - Joseph Fry & Son and Cadbury Brothers displayed chocolates for eating at an exhibition in Bingley Hall, Birmingham, England.

1851 - Prince Albert's Exposition in London was the first time that Americans were introduced to bonbons, chocolate creams, hand candies (called "boiled sweets"), and caramels.

1861 - Richard Cadbury created the first known heart-shaped candy box for Valentine's Day.

1868 - John Cadbury mass-marketed the first boxes of chocolate candies.

1876 - Daniel Peter of Vevey, Switzerland, experimented for eight years before finally inventing a means of making milk chocolate for eating.

1879 - Daniel Peter and Henri Nestlé joined together to form the Nestlé Company.

1879 - Rodolphe Lindt of Berne, Switzerland, produced a more smooth and creamy chocolate that melted on the tongue. He invented the "conching" machine. To conch meant to heat and roll chocolate in order to refine it. After chocolate had been conched for seventy-two hours and had more cocoa butter added to it, it was possible to create chocolate "fondant" and other creamy forms of chocolate.

1897 - The first known published recipe for chocolate brownies appeared in the Sears and Roebuck Catalogue.

1910 - Canadian, Arthur Ganong marketed the first nickel chocolate bar.

1913 - Swiss confiseur Jules Sechaud of Montreux introduced a machine process for manufacturing filled chocolates.

1926 - Belgian chocolatier, Joseph Draps starts the Godiva Company to compete with Hershey's and Nestle's American market