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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:20:57 GMT
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On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:51:44 GMT, WingedMessenger <Boy@FlyingHigh.com>
wrote:
>"::darkshadows::" <bloody@mary.org> wrote in
>news:tsnlj3tecjtfan885tro676sdab68gtss1@4ax.com:
>
>>
>> Chocolate began as beer-like brew 3,100 years ago
>>
>> By Will Dunham Tue Nov 13, 9:56 AM ET
>>
>> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chocolate enjoyed around the world today
>> had its origins at least 3,100 years ago in Central America not as the
>> sweet treat people now crave but as a celebratory beer-like beverage
>> and status symbol, scientists said on Monday.
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>>
>> Researchers identified residue of a chemical compound that comes
>> exclusively from the cacao plant -- the source of chocolate -- in
>> pottery vessels dating from about 1100 BC in Puerto Escondido,
>> Honduras.
>>
>> This pushed back by at least 500 years the earliest documented use of
>> cacao, an important luxury commodity in Mesoamerica before European
>> invaders arrived and now the basis of the modern chocolate industry.
>>
>> Cacao (pronounced cah-COW) seeds were used to make ceremonial
>> beverages consumed by elites of the Aztecs and other civilizations,
>> while also being used as a form of currency.
>>
>> The Spanish conquistadors who shattered the Aztec empire in the 16th
>> century were smitten with a chocolate beverage made from cacao seeds
>> served in the palace of the emperor. However, this was not the form in
>> which cacao had its beginnings.
>>
>> "The earliest cacao beverages consumed at Puerto Escondido were likely
>> produced by fermenting the sweet pulp surrounding the seeds," the
>> scientists wrote in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of
>> Sciences.
>>
>> One of the researchers, anthropologist John Henderson of Cornell
>> University in Ithaca, New York, said cacao beverages were being
>> concocted far earlier than previously believed -- and it was a
>> beer-like drink that started the chocolate craze.
>>
>> "What we're seeing in this early village is a very early stage in
>> which serving cacao at fancy occasions is one of the strategies that
>> upwardly mobile families are using to establish themselves, to
>> accumulate social prestige," Henderson said in a telephone interview.
>>
>> "I think this is part of the process by which you eventually get
>> stratified societies," Henderson said.
>>
>> The cacao brew consumed at the village of perhaps 200 to 300 people
>> may have evolved into the chocolate beverage known from later in
>> Mesoamerican history not by design but as "an accidental byproduct of
>> some brewing," Henderson said.
>>
>> The chocolate enjoyed by later Mesoamerican civilizations like the
>> Maya and Aztecs was made from ground cacao seeds with added
>> seasonings, producing a spicy, frothy drink.
>>
>> The Spanish brought cacao back to Europe in the 16th century. Many
>> innovations occurred in the ensuing centuries, including the advent of
>> solid chocolate treats.
>>
>> The scientists used chemical analysis of residues extracted from
>> pottery vessels from the Honduran site to determine that cacao had
>> been used.
>>
>> The style of the 10 small, elegant serving vessels suggests the cacao
>> brew was served at important ceremonies perhaps to celebrate weddings
>> and births, the scientists said.
>>
>> Henderson said the first use of cacao may be earlier still by perhaps
>> a couple of centuries. He said the scientists intend to test earlier
>> pottery from the region for chemical proof.
>>
>
>Go for it Donut and dont give a damn about your figure LOL.
>
>Mercury.
Check hisresponse in the former discussion group where there are
nutshells all over the place.
lol,
darkshadows
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