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"We won't have a
society if we destroy the
environment." "Always remember
that you are absolutely unique.
Just like everyone else.
A
small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
Indeed, it's
the only thing that ever has.
Thanks to television, youth is
seeing history censored before their eyes.
I measure success in terms of the
contributions an individual makes.
The only thing worth doing is to add to the sum
of accurate information.
Fear of punishment can be
regarded as merely cowardly.
Solutions are
dependent on
shaping."
Margaret
Mead
Itzamna used magic to give man
corn, chocolate,
writing, drawing, calendars, medicine and healing.
1500 BC Olmecs grind
cocoa beans, mixed them with water and add spices, chillies and
herbs.
Theobroma cacoa processing
For the next 3000 years
first the Olmecs, then the Mayans (600 BC) and finally the Aztecs (400 AD)
develop successful methods for cultivating cocoa.
Chocolate is used in
religious rituals dedicated to Quetzalcoatl, the Aztec god responsible for
bringing the cocoa tree to man, to Chak ek Chuah, the Mayan patron saint
of cocoa and as an offering at the funerals of noblemen.
1502 Christopher Columbus and
his crew seize a large native canoe that contains, among other goods for trade,
cacao beans.
Between the early 17th and late 19th centuries the
laborious and slow processing of the cacao bean was manual.
The European
craze for chocolate brought with it
a thriving slave
market.
Cacao plantations spread, as the English, Dutch, and French
colonized and planted.
With the depletion of Mesoamerican workers,
largely to disease, cocoa beans production was often the work of poor wage
laborers and enslaved Africans.
1585 First cargo
of cocoa beans arrived on the Iberian Peninsula from New Spain.
The Whole Process Of Making Chocolate
1650 Chocolate beverages first appeared in England coinciding
with the arrival of tea from China and coffee from the Middle
East.
1674 First chocolate lozenge appears in
England.
1729 The first mechanic cocoa grinder
is invented Walter Churchman in Bristol, UK where His Majesty King George II
grants a patent and sole use of an
invention for the expeditious, fine and clean making of chocolate by
an engine.
1776 Doret invents a hydraulic
process to grind cocoa beans into a paste, facilitating the first large-scale
production of chocolate.
1815 Dutch chemist Coenraad van Houten introduces alkaline
salts to chocolate to reduce its bitterness.
Cocoa beans are fermented,
dried, roasted, and separated from their skins. The beans are ground into
cocoa mass (cocoa paste).
The mass is melted and the 'liquor' is either
separated into cocoa solids and
cocoa butter, or
cooled and molded into blocks of raw chocolate.
The term liquor, used at
this point, means 'liquid' or 'fluid'.
Chocolate liquor (cocoa liquor)
is pure cocoa mass in solid or semi-solid form.
Chocolate liquor
contains roughly 53 percent cocoa butter (fat), about 17 percent carbohydrates,
11 percent protein, 6 percent tannins, and 1.5 percent
theobromine.
1828 Dutch are producing and selling
cocoa 'powder.'
To make Dutch cocoa powder, chocolate liquor is pumped
into giant hydraulic presses, where about half of the cocoa butter is squeezed
out.
Baking soda is added to the remaining material, which is called
"press cake."
Treated press cake is then cooled, pulverized, and sifted
to form cocoa powder.
1875 Daniel Peter invents
milk chocolate by mixing a powdered milk developed by Henri Nestlé with
the chocolate liquor.
1893 Milton Hershey spots
chocolate making equipment at the Worlds Fair in Chicago and begins production
at a factory in Pennsylvania.
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