The first European who can rightly claim the "discovery" of cocoa is Christopher Columbus in 1502.
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it was first sirved as a drink in europe, and then cocoa powder was mixed with cocoa butter,milk and sugar to create the chocolate we eat today.
The history of the chocolate and cocoa products industry in the United States dates from 1765. In that year, supplied by cocoa beans from the West Indies, the first chocolate factory was established in New England.
The Aztecs, Mayans, Incas, and other ancient native tribes to South America were the first do discover and use cocoa as chocolate.
Cocoa beans grow in the tropics on a small tree. The beans grow in pods abount the size of a deflated football. First the beans are removed from the pods and firmented for afew weeks. Then they are roasted not unlike coffee beans. After that they are ground into cocoa. To turn these beans into chocolate, a good portion of them are roasted and sent separated by a machine called a winnower. From there they are ground into a paste and mixed with cocoa butter and sugar until refined into various forms of chocolate.
It was in first made in East Africa, where the cocoa beans were first discovered,
Christopher Columbus discovered cocoa on his voyage
The first person to separate cocoa solids from cocoa butter was an unknown employee at the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company in 1865, and it was a Swiss man called Daniel Peter who first brought milk chocolate to market in 1875. Milton Hershey adapted this formula for milk chocolate to create the first chocolate bar in 1900 and chocolate then became a product for the mass market.
Chocolate's source, the cocoa bean, naturally produces a brown colored product.
Hi. I hope this is right. I am new to answers.com and this is my first answer so I hope this is lucky. Well, you get the chocolate from cocoa beans. Simple as that!
The first chocolate was usually cocoa powder made into a drink (similar to hot chocolate, or a spice cafe mocha drink). It was very bitter, as there was not sugar or milk added to it.