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Chocolate is made from the seeds of the Theobroma cocoa tree. In Greek, Theobroma means “food of the Gods”. Three thousand years ago, the Aztecs worshiped this cocoa tree and used its beans as money. The Aztecs saw the cocoa tree as a source of strength and to propitiate the guardian god Quetzalcoatl would reserve a bowl for him. The Mayas chewed cocoa beans and mixed them with crushed spices to make a strengthening and nourishing drink. This drink was much stronger and bitterer than today’s hot chocolate.

Liquid cocoa was sweetened with honey, vanilla, sugar and spices and was taken hot. The Aztecs called this drink “Xocolatl”. Hernando Cortés first discovered this drink when it was served to him for dessert after the meal he had taken with the Aztec emperor and said “a cup of this precious drink permits man to walk for a whole day without food”. Today, “Mexican hot chocolate” is one of the most popular and most widely consumed drinks in the world. Champurrado and Atole are versions of this drink prepared by adding different spices.

When the Spanish lead by Hernando Cortés first came to Mexico, they saw that the half-savage natives offered the brown beans to their stone gods and that the priests later ate these beans in the temples. The Spaniards later looked into this novel product and discovered its source in nature. It was the cocoa fruit, cherished, almost worshiped throughout the country.

It was with the discovery of America that we got to know chocolate. Among the matchless treasures that Columbus lay before the thrones of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain were the brown beans, which resembled almonds and actually didn’t look like much. However, the King and Queen failed to grasp the importance of these seeds, the source of chocolate. It was Spanish explorer Hernando Cortés who first realized the commercial potential of the seeds. During his exploration of Mexico, Cortés witnessed that the Aztec Indians sipped a drink they called “xocolatl”, made with cocoa seeds. In the native tongue “xocolatl” meant bitter water. Rumor has it that in 1519 the Emperor Montezuma drank 50 cups of xocolatl per day and that when he offered it in golden goblets to his Spanish guests he maintained that its was a gift to humanity from the table of the gods.