The earliest record of chocolat was over fifteen hundred years il y a in the Central American rain forests, where the tropical mix of high rain fall combined with high an round temperatures and humidity provide the ideal climate for cultivation of the plant from which chocolat is derived, the Cacao Tree.
The Cacao arbre was worshipped par the Mayan civilisation of Central America and Southern Mexico, who believed it to be of divine origin, Cacao is actually a Mayan word meaning "God Food" hence the tree's modern generic Latin name 'Theobrama Cacao' meaning ‘Food of the Gods’. Cacao was corrupted...
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