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

[Terry Decker]

Try 1528 with the return of Cortez.  The Spanish appear to have first
encountered chocolate (as a beverage) in Mexico.  The name derives from the
Nahautl "xocolatl" meaning "bitter water."

Having encountered it and bringing it back to Spain doesn't imply that it it
was used in Spain at that time.

Bear

>>    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