[Sca-cooks] Marzipan and Chocolate question...

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 05:41 PM 11/6/02 -0500, you wrote:
>
>    1. What is the date Chocolate came into being found in our
>period....?  I know that there is huge arguments over this about yes or
>no I just need to know if the date was before or after 1487?  My wife
>seems to think that it was being imported from the West Indies, but
>based on the bruhaha I hear about it I don't want to chance it.

Even if it was from the West Indies, it certainly wasn't by 1487- Columbus
didn't make it to the New World until 1492- some 5 years later, and no,
Leif Erickson didn't bring back chocolate. It doesn't grow in Greenland.

'Lainie
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