Lecture 1: The History of Chocolate

What does the name of the Theobroma Cocoa tree mean?

• Fruit of the gods

• Food of the gods

• Food of the pods

• Chocolate tree

Chocolate is also called

• candy

• food of the gods

• cocoa

• sweet

Chocolate may be

• older than 3000 years old

• 1500 years old

• 3000 years old

• no one knows

Where is chocolate from?

• Spain

• Europe

• North America

• Central and South America

The Spanish explorers brought chocolate to Europe

• in the 1500s

• 3000 years ago

• in 1600

• in 1500

In Europe, chocolate was only consumed as

• a candy

• a soup

• a beverage

• a sandwich

The Olmec people of Mexico used chocolate as a

• medicine

• drink

• food

• decoration

Currency means

• food

• medicine

• money

• a gift

What was the Spanish explorer, Hernán Cortés, looking for when he was given cacao?

• food

• gold

• Spain

• India

To make cacao less bitter, the Spanish added

• salt

• pepper

• milk

• sugar and honey