Where chocolate comes from?
Chocolate is made from the bean of a tree, Theobroma cacao, means “food for the gods”, native to the tropical areas of Central and South America. Cocoa beans were believed to be originated in Europe thousands of years ago. First Columbus introduced cocoa beans to Spain. Later people started to taste bitter drink called xocolatl(bitter water) made from cocoa butter. This is how the use of cocoa beans started. Then this drink took changes and people started drinking it with sugar and spices. The method of pouring the drink from one vessel to another to create the foam also became popular in Spain. Then Missionaries took this new drink to South America, Italy and France. For two and half centuries, controversy raged within catholic countries as to whether taking of the chocolate broke the fast. Later they held it did not brake the fast, so drinking chocolate continued. This is how Europe discovered Chocolate. Drinking of chocolate became eating chocolate after 1828, when the Dutch Chemist
