The first documented use of chocolate came when in 2007 archaeologists reported finding evidence of cacao use at a site in Puerto Escondido, Honduras dating from about 1100 to 1400 BC. When the Aztecs gained control they adop
ted chocolate into their culture for sacred offerings. Xocóatl, as the Aztecs called it, meaning “bitter water,” was a drink “made from ground cacao beans boiled in water, flavored with vanilla and other tropical spices, and chilled with bits of snow from nearby mountain tops.” Europeans adapted chocolate after Montezuma introduced it to the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés in the 16th century. (
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