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

[Dan Phelps]

Was asked:

> >    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.

Chocolate was witnessed by the Spanish in their conquest, consumed by them
as a drink in the New World and it is documented to have been brought back
to Europe as cargo, per "The History of Food", in 1585.  It did not IIRC
resemble what we call chocolate today.

Daniel Raoul