Cacao was very popular throughout South and Central America. It was a product that was used for medicine, currency and religious ceremonies that ranged from baptism to human sacrifice. Buried vessels found in Guatemala dating to 400 A.D., had chocolate inside them and recipes for the chocolate drinks were written on the pots.
The cacao beans were first transported from the New World to the Old in 1520 by Christopher Columbus. The royal court kept cacao a secret for about 100 years, before it started spreading through the rest of Europe. Now everyone knows about rich, sweet, wonderful chocolate.
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