HISTORY OF CHOCOLATE
Chocolate has a 4,000-year history that dates back to ancient Mesoamerica, which is now Mexico. It’s there where the first cacao plant was found.
They drank chocolate as a pleasant beverage, an aphrodisiac, and even to prepare for war, believing it was a gift from the god Quetzalcoatl.
HISTORY OF COFFEE
Kaldi discovered coffee after noticing that his goats got so lively after eating the berries from a certain tree that they refused to sleep at night. Kaldi informed the nearby monastery’s abbot, who made a drink from the berries and discovered that it kept him awake throughout the lengthy hours of nightly prayer. The abbot informed the other monks at the monastery about his discovery, and word of the stimulating berries spread quickly.
As news spread east and coffee reached the Arabian Peninsula, it embarked on a voyage that would eventually take these beans around the world.
