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Chocolate
Chocolate is made from the fermented, roasted and ground seeds of the cacao tree, Theobroma cacao, a plant native to tropical America. Mesoamerican peoples drank it as a spiced, frothy beverage and used the beans as currency long before Spanish ships carried c…
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ChocolateChocolate is made from the fermented, roasted and ground seeds of the cacao tree, Theobroma cacao, a plant native to tropical America. Mesoamerican peoples drank it as a spiced, frothy beverage and used the beans as currency long before Spanish ships carried c…