Origin of Chocolate
Researches have found traces of cacao on pottery fragments dating from about 1100 B.C. to 800 B.C. Even more interesting, they also think that chocolate was discovered by accident—when Central American Indians making beer from the pulp of cacao seedpods discovered a new use for the pulpy byproduct.
“It was beer with a high kick,” said study author Rosemary Joyce, an anthropologist at University of California, Berkeley.
The drink was poured from special pitchers that created froth in the drinking cups and served to celebrate special occasions such as marriages and births, Joyce said. The fragments were uncovered between 1995 and 2000 at archaeological excavations near Puerto Escondido in Honduras.
The whole story is available at NationalGeographic.com.
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