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History Of Chocolate

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  • Aug 27, 1492

    How chacolate was found

    The story of chocolate goes to 1492 when chocolate was found in the new world.
  • Aug 28, 1492

    The court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella got the first look at chocolate's principal ingredien.

    King Ferdinand and
    Queen Isabella got its first look at the
    principal ingredient of chocolate when
    Columbus returned in triumph from America
    and laid before the Spanish throne a
    treasure trove of many strange and
    wonderful things. Among these were a few
    dark brown beans that looked like almonds
    and seemed most unpromising. They were
    cocoa beans, today’s source of all our
    chocolate and cocoa.
  • Sep 3, 1492

    The King and Queen never dreamedhow important cocoa beans could be?

    The King and Queen never dreamed
    how important cocoa beans could be, and it
    remained for Hernando Cortez, the great
    Spanish explorer, to grasp the commercial
    possibilities of the New World offerings.
  • Sep 8, 1492

    Food of the Gods

    During his conquest of Mexico, Cortez
    found the Aztec Indians using cocoa beans in
    the preparation of the royal drink of the
    realm, chocolatl, meaning warm liquid. In
    1519, Emperor Montezuma, who reportedly
    drank 50 or more portions daily, served
    chocolatl to his Spanish guests in great
    golden goblets, treating it like a food for the
    gods.
  • Oct 21, 1492

    Chocolate Spreads to Europe

    Spanish monks, who had been
    consigned to process the cocoa beans, finally
    let the secret out. It did not take long before
    chocolate was acclaimed throughout Europe
    as a delicious, health-giving food. For a
    while it reigned as the drink at the
    fashionable Court of France. Chocolate
    drinking spread across the Channel to Great
    Britain, and in 1657 the first of many famous
    English Chocolate Houses appeared.
  • Dec 14, 1493

    Chocolate Comes To America

    In the United States of America, the
    production of chocolate proceeded at a faster
    pace than anywhere else in the world. It was
    in the prerevolutionary New England–1765,
    to be exact–that the first chocolate factory
    was established.
  • Jan 31, 1494

    The Need For Shelter

    The cacao tree is very delicate and
    sensitive. It needs protection from the wind
    and requires a fair amount of shade under
    most conditions. This is true especially in its
    first two to four years of growth.