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Chocolate: From the Food of the Gods to the Candy Aisle
MesoAmerica and Chocolate
In our series looking at foods that built civilizations, today we are going to stay in the Americas with chocolate.
Chocolate has been used as currency, consumed by kings, incorporated into religious ceremonies, and prescribed as medicine. Today, it is a multibillion-dollar industry that wants you to believe that eating chocolate is an act of preventive cardiology.
I mean, why not? They convinced us to give chocolate to people we love, eat it when we are happy, when we are sad, when only the dog understands us. Don’t feed chocolate to your dog.
And we have done all…
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