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Chocolate History and Coffee Distribution History
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Chocolate History
The botanists agree that chocolate or cocoa tree (Theobroma cacao) is grown in the Amazon and Orinoco valley in South America for thousands of years ago. The Mayans who first cultivate cacao trees. This habit is also taken when they moved to the plains Yucatan. Then introduced the Aztec nation of bitter chocolate as a beverage. Cocoa beans mixed with corn or fermented wine and served in cups made of gold. Aztec emperors named Montezuma has a habit of drinking chocolate for more than 50 cups of cocoa per day.
The Spanish colonizers named Hernán Cortés (1485-1547) when colonized the area initially interested in the gold cup than it is chocolate. But he also observed that for The Aztecs, cocoa or cocoa beans are also used as money. Because of that, he immediately set up some cocoa. Plantation known as “brown gold” was developed and the results favored, so that Spain controlled the trade chocolate in the 18th century. Then Brown was introduced to mainland Europe and made the cake mix ingredients.
In the mid-19th century, the Swiss began to develop and market the chocolate as a snack. So brown as the beverage was only later evolved into snack that can be melted on the tongue. Switzerland also became known as the best chocolate producing countries.
Then a smart entrepreneurs like Hershey, Kohler, Lindt, Nestlé, Peter, Suchard and Tobler-brand their name to this famous chocolate-making a big contribution to chocolate industry. They found the chocolate processing machinery as well as finding more efficient methods of processing cocoa better.
Coffee Distribution History
Roasted coffee beans and mashed and served. The method of roasting their own coffee beans is not known when the start. However, coffee plants from the highlands of Ethiopia, which at that time the wild plants in Ethiopia. Then the coffee plants from here developed in the Arabian Peninsula around the 15th century, which became famous Arabica Coffee. Arabica coffee is now a kind of coffee the most widely produced in the world reaching more than 60 percent of world coffee production.
According to legend, coffee was discovered by a young Arab named Kaldi, a goatherd. He always noticed that the goat was always happy to show symptoms after a bite seeds and leaves of green plants. Out of curiosity, he tried to plant seeds and feels the effects of the spirit and joy. This discovery eventually spread by word of mouth, since it was born of coffee, according to legend in Arabic.
In the year 1610, the first coffee plants grown in India. The Dutch began to study the proliferation of coffee in the year 1614. Then in 1616, they managed to obtain seeds and plants lush coffee and coffee plantations established immediately in Sri Lanka and the land of Java (Indonesia) in 1699. Then by the Dutch, these plants spread to the Dutch colony in Central America as in Suriname and the Caribbean. Then the French nation is also interested in this coffee trade. They bought coffee seeds from the Netherlands and developed in Reunion Island east of Madagascar. But they failed to develop the coffee here. Then in 1723, the French tried to develop coffee plants in the region of Martinique Island. In the 1800s, developed the coffee plants in Hawaii. Later these plants also developed in Brazil and other areas.


