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The Impact of Chocolate, Thesis Question: How has the preparation of…

- - - - Europeans did not like chocolate savory, so they added sugar in place of honey
        
        Chocolate was mostly drunk until the 1800s
        
        Because chocolate was expensive as an import, drinks were only available to the super-rich
      - Chocolate was drunk foamy by the wealthy, and it was drunk cold by commoners (Gattusso)
- - - - Cacao is native to the Amazon rainforest
- - - - A Quaker owned company later poured chocolate powder into a mold and thus the first chocolate bar was produced
        
        Combined with more efficient practices this made chocolate finally accessible to everybody
- - - - In addition to being used as a drink, chocolate was used as currency
        
        After Aztecs discovered chocolate (which they couldn't grow in their homeland, central Mexico) they traded with the Mayans
        
        Chocolate was percieved to have mystical healing qualities by Mesoamerican socieites
      - Chocolate was also used as sacrifices to gods
      - Chocolate was used at Mesoamerican rituals (Bilton)
        
        Birth
        
        Death
        
        Marriage
        
        Knightship
    - - Chocolate was also percieved to have medicinal qualities (according to old European health theories)
        
        Chocolate spawned the first "chocolate houses" which were hangouts for the rich (eventually they turned into political houses)
        
        Chocolate led to the acceptance of other drinks like tea (China) and coffee (Africa)
        
        Today giving of chocolate during Valentines day is symbolic of ancient Mesoamerican rituals (Bilton)
  - - - 2/3 of chocolate are produced in Africa (Bilton)
      - European colonies attempted to force Indigenous populations to grow chocolate
        
        However, due to diseases, Indigenous people died off and Europeans resorted to Africans to grow chocolate
        
        Europeans used the Triangular trade to do this (Bilton)
        
        While slaves are not a thing anymore, to keep production costs low most of cheaper chocolate is still produced in Africa, and working conditions are still not ideal (Bilton)