chocolate history
robert m milliron
milliron1 at juno.com
Fri Jun 6 22:41:55 PDT 1997
On 5 Jun 1997 11:18:26 -0500 "Mark Harris"
<mark_harris at quickmail.sps.mot.com> writes:
>Anastasiya said:
>
>>Now I can say that Chocolate as a drink arrived back with the
>discovery
>>of the New World. An was used heavily in the Spanish armies.
>>mmmm....Chocolate.....mmmm
>
>I have not heard any mention of chocolate by the Spanish armies in
>period
>before. Can you give more details? I would love to add more such
>details
>to my file chocolate-msg which is in the FOOD section of my SCA Rialto
>Files. It was my understanding that what little use of chocolate there
>was in Spain during period was by the court and upper classes, so this
>would be interesting info.
>
>Stefan li Rous
>markh at risc.sps.mot.com
>
>
>
SORRY thats what you I get for staying up way to late. I meant to say
heavily guarded by the Spanish armies. They were unable to grow the
cacao tree in Spain. Thus producing a heavily guarded product. That
meant high cost so yes you are correct in whom would of consumed the
chocolate drink. Please forgive!!!!
Anastasiya
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