Cacao beverage
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Beverages made from the flesh and seeds of the fruit of the Theobroma cacao tree have been consumed for thousands of years in Central and South America.
Popo served in a jícara
History of chocolate
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The history of chocolate dates back more than 5,000 years, when the cacao tree was first domesticated in present-day Ecuador. Soon after domestication, the tree was introduced to Mesoamerica, where ca
The morning chocolate by Pietro Longhi; Venice, 1775–1780
Image from a Maya ceramic depicting a container of frothed chocolate
An Aztec woman generating foam by pouring chocolate from one vessel to another in the Codex Tudela
A Man Milling Cacao into Chocolate with a Metate and a Mano, c. 1680–1780 by an unknown Spanish artist