Chocolate

Enjoying a chocolate at
Café Con Sentido
















Chocolate (cho-co-la-tay)

Now that the nights are getting a little cooler here in Aguas, it's getting to be the perfect time to enjoy a cup of Mexican hot chocolate.
Did you know...... ?
......the cacoa (kahkow) tree was discovered about 2000 years ago in the tropical rainforests of Mexico and Central America. The Mayans were the first people to make chocolate from ground cacoa seeds, chile pepper, cornmeal and water.
The Aztecs used cacoa seeds as a form of money but they also consumed the spicy, frothy drink. In Aztec culture it was primarily the upper classes, royalty and priests who drank it, claiming that wisdom and power came from chocolate. (well, doesn’t it?) It is said that Moctezuma drank up to 50 goblets of it every day.
Later the Spanish conquistadors brought the cacoa seeds back to Spain where new recipes were created and the drink’s popularity spread throughout Europe.
Solid chocolate wasn’t created until 1847 in England and in 1876 the Swiss devised a way of adding milk to make the first milk chocolate.

Here in Aguas chocolate is served with a bit of cinnamon, unsweetened, or slightly sweetened (you add sugar to taste), and very frothy. Yum!