It takes all the beans from the ...
Daniel Peter, who was a confectioner in Switzerland, invented...
Thec cocoa tree originally comes from the Amazon rainforest. Brazil, West Africa and...
In 1847, Joseph fry, who lived in England, mixed the cocoa butter...
The Mexicans put chocolate in...
Coenrad van Houten, who was Dutch, was the first...
The Aztecs used the cocoa bean as a form of money. According to H H Bancroft, who was a historian, 'four beans...
Chocolate first came from Central America. The word chocolate comes from the Aztec language and is...
They offered the recipes for 40 different...
Henry Nestlé...
In 1980, the Swiss police arrested a young couple because they...
In Britain, people spend an average...
Women, who buy more than two-thirds of...
Soon it became very fashionable to...
The Aztecs made a greasy, bitter drink called...
He presented it to the Spanish Royal Court in Madrid and served it...
The explorer Cortes was the first person...
An average British person eats...
Chocolate contains small amounts of the chemical phenylethylamine, which is also...
The world's largest chocolate model was a...
were trying to sell chocolate secrets to foreign powers.
naturally present in the brain, and which gives us the same feeling as when we fall in love.
10 m by 5 m representation of the Olympic Centre in Barcelona.
of 98p a week on chocolate.
between 8.5-9.5 kg a year, except the Scots, who eat 30 per cent more.
Ecuador now produce most of the 1.5 million-tonne world cocoa crop.
drink it mixed with sugar and vanilla and drunk warm.
chocolate to the Soviet and Chinese embassies.
savoury dishes. They serve mole, which is a kind of chocolate sauce, with roast chicken.
the chocolate, eat less than 40 per cent.
developed the process.
bought some vegetables, ten beans bought a woman and a slave cost 100'.
Xocoatl, from cocoa beans mixed with cold water, spicies and cornmeal.
with herbs and pepper.
the only Aztec word we use regularly in English.
milk chocolate in the 1870s.
with other ingredients to make a solid chocolate bar.
person to extract the cocoa butter fro the cocoa bean in 1827.
to bring chocolate to Europe.
one cocoa tree to make 500g of chocolate.