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

By Rachel Laudan December 2, 2007 Drink, Food History, Grinding, Mexican Food No Comments

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

By Rachel Laudan November 25, 2007 Drink, Food History, Mexican Food No Comments

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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