A Short History Of Chocolate Valentine’s Day and chocolate seem made for each other. This link appears to stem from the 19th century marketing savvy of British chocolate manufacturer Richard Cadbury who came up with a way to sell “eating chocolates” containing cocoa butter back in the days when chocolate was mainly consumed as a drink. Cadbury packaged his candies in elaborate heart-shaped boxes he designed himself. But the illustrious history of chocolate – now a $100 billion annual business – began long before that: In early Mexico, beans from Theobroma cacao trees (Theobroma is Greek for “food for the …read more
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