About chocolate

Chocolate is very popular among women and men, is probably the world's favorite sweet. Reminiscent of childhood or instant sensuality, softness has many faces, revealing explosive flavors, hot, sweet and refined.

In Mayan times

For the Mayans, chocolate was almost as important as gold.
The so-called "Cacahuaquchtl" ("tree"), cocoa could produce food of the gods.

A. Beautiful and delicious that settlers were quick to report in Europe became a popular drink in the sixteenth century
But chocolate is democratized, it was not until the nineteenth century and the first industrial chocolate. The 1840, themselves, appear as chocolate.

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About Chocolate

At the origin of chocolate, therefore, there is cocoa. However, there are several steps before moving on to the tasting:

- (! Do not know what gentlemen, the taste is very bitter) Harvesting of pods, the fruit of the tree, which contains tens of thousands of cocoa beans

- The dried and roasted cocoa beans;

- The grinding of the beans to obtain cocoa liquor.

It is from this pasta is chocolate: sugar and cocoa butter are added. Finally, the chocolate is molded.

While cocoa is found in Africa, South America or Asia, some countries have made ​​their specialty. Among them, the Swiss, but the Belgians.

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