Chocolate
was unknow in Europe untill after 1492, when Christopher Columbus (1451-1506 )
return from the first Europian explorations in the New World. Columbus, who
though he had reached India, not a new continent, returned with many new
treasures, many of them agricultural. He presented them all to this patrons,
the Spanish King and his wife. they were probably not impressed with their new view of the small dark bitter
cocoa bean and could not imagined how these bean might one day become the
source of an international chocolate industry.
The first
person to turn cocoa beans into something commercially important was the
Spanish explorer hernando Cortez. Chocolatl meaning warm liquid.Chocolatl
spread throughout Europe was made fashionable by various kings and queens.
In the
nineteenth century , two major improvements were made to chocolate. The first
came in 1847, when an English company introduced a smooth chocolate for eating.
The second development occurred 1876, in Vevey, Switzerland , when Daniel Peter
found a way to add milk chocolate , creating the product we enjoy today know as
milk chocolate.
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