Was Pulp Booze the First Cacao Beverage? Why I’m Doubtful

Well, after reading various newspaper stories about new information about the history of chocolate, I just couldn’t stop mulling over the idea that cacao (the tree whose fruit is the…

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Was Pulp Booze the First Use of Cacao? An Intriguing Hypothesis

Beer of cacao pulp? That’s what the residues on pots in Puerto Escondido in Honduras suggested to John S. Henderson and Rosemary A. Joyce of Cornell and the University of…

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Chocolate and Toasted Maize: What a Drink

Many countries still have drinks that go back deep into the past. One such is taxcalate from Chiapas in the far south of Mexico. Here’s the powder base: ground toasted…

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