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A History of Chocolate

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

I find the best way to consider the history of chocolate is to actually eat some while I’m reading! We can thank the Mayan Indians for discovering and planting the first cocoa plants in 1500 BC, when the Olmec Indians began to grow them.  They used to dry out the beans and then grind it […]