A presentation by Charlotte

CHOCOLATE

• What is chocolate?

• Where does it come from?

• Chocolate today

CHOCOLATE MAKING

• Raw ingredients:– Cocoa beans from Central/ South America and

Africa– Fermentation process

• Cocoa bean processing:– Screening and cleaning– Storing until needed– roasting

CHOCOLATE FACTS• The Aztec Emperor Montezuma is said to have drank 50

cups of chocolate each day!

• Apparently the Victorians couldn’t pronounce cacao so it was renamed cocoa!

• The world’s largest chocolate bar weighed 5,792 kgs !

• Eating dark chocolate every day reduces the risk of heart disease by one third.

THE HISTORY OF CHOCOLATE

• Cocoa grew wild in Central America• The Mayan and Aztecs would crush the bean

and mix it with water to create a drink.

THE OLMECS OF MEXICO

IT CAME TO SPAIN

• Aztecs served some to Hernando Cortez, a Spanish explorer in 1519.

• 10 years later he brought some back to Spain and served it with sugar and it became very popular.

• About 30 years before Christopher Columbus had already introduced chocolate, from the Caribbean, to the Spanish King but it was too bitter.

AND TO EUROPE

• Chocolate was quickly introduced to the French Royal family.

• It became the most important medicines for doctors, mainly in France and Italy.

• The first English chocolate house opened in London in 1657

FINALLY

• The first English chocolate factory was opened by Joseph Fry & Sons in 1759

• They still make chocolate today!

• Milk chocolate was created in 1875 when a Swiss man changed the original recipe by adding condensed milk made by Henri Nestle.