The history of chocolate The history of

The history of chocolate

The history of chocolate • There are great variety stories and the legends connected with emergence of chocolate. Already nobody undertakes to call an exact place and time of its emergence. It is considered to be that the first the secret of taste of chocolate was opened by the Indians of the Maya living on the bank of the Gulf of Mexico who had even the special god "managing" cocoa. Cocoa beans were considered at that time as the currency growing on trees. Throughout many centuries chocolate was used in the form of

Interesting facts • Chocolate is transferred from Latin as "food of the gods" • Every day 15 % of women around the world eat chocolate • Confectioners of New York created the highest tower from chocolate in the world. The tower in height in 6 m of 40 centimeters needed over 1 thousand kg of black chocolate, and construction took more than 30 hours • The Russian chocolate factory got to the book of the Guinness records, having created the biggest chocolate tile in the world. This work of confectionery art of 500 kg weighed, its length

Important years for chocolate • 1829. The press invention for cocoa • 1830. Swiss chocolatie Medée Kokhler created for the first time chocolate with hazelnut. • 1847. English society Frei begins manufacturing of firm chocolate. • 1848. First-ever chocolate bar. • 1875. Danielle Peter's Swiss creates first-ever "milk chocolate". • 1900. Process of glazing of confectionery by chocolate is automated, thanks to «cars for a covering chocolate» .

The history of chocolate Museums of chocolate in the world

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