Chocolate: Beans to Bricks to Bars

S. M. Smoller

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  1. What society first ground cocoa beans to make a drink?

    2. Links to reference material:
    A Chocolate Timeline

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    Chinese
    Mayan
    Iranian
    Italian

  2. When did the Aztecs begin drinking cocoa? What was their name for the drink?

    3. Links to reference material:
    The Chocolate Timeline

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  3. What two explorers encountered cocoa in the 1500's?

    4. Links to reference material:
    The Chocolate Timeline

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  4. What year did the first chocolate shop open in London? What was the name of the shop?

    5. Links to reference material:
    The Chocolate Timeline

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  5. Who renamed cocoa "theobroma" and what does it mean?

    6. Links to reference material:
    The Chocolate Timeline

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  6. When was chocolate first introduced in America? Where was the first chocolate mill in America? Name the two men who made the first mill possible.

    7. Links to reference material:
    The Chocolate Timeline

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  7. Read the webpage and explain how the first chocolate mill worked.

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    It Happened in.....

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  8. Define "chocolate-lovers' elbow".

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    It Happened in.....

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  9. With the outbreak of the Revolution, what did the chocolate makers have to do to stay in business?

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    It Happened in.....

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  10. Read about Gideon Foster. When did he inherit his mills along Goldthwaite Brook? What do you think his business was "which at that particular time was probably enjoying an unprecedented prosperity due to the prohibitions that had been placed on tea"?

    11. Links to reference material:
    About General Gideon Foster

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