Short History of Chocolate
Chocolate! A substance first discovered by Europeans when the explorer Hernando Cortez reached Mexico in 1519 and found that the civilization of the emperor, Montezuma and the Aztec peoples, treated this amazing substance with reverence. At that time, chocolate (called chocolatl) was used as a refreshing and potent drink.
It wasn't until about the mid-1850's, and many experiments later primarily in Britain and Holland, that it came to be the chocolate we know today.