Re(2): SC - Caffeine in period

[david friedman]

On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 09:24:13, -0500 Annejke at prodigy.com (MS MARTHA L
WALLENHORST) writes:

>If someone else hasn't said it already (I have been gone for a week
>for my sons graduation) I will, hot Chocolate is period in Europe.
>It is late period but there is mention of it in Spain and the
>Netherlands.

It depends what you mean by "hot chocolate." Certainly there was a drink
made out of cocoa beans being drunk in Spain in the sixteenth century. But
the descriptions I have seen suggest that no modern person who tasted it
would describe it as hot chocolate, and no sixteenth century Spaniard would
have ever drunk anything that tasted very much like what we call hot
chocolate.




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