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Chocolate History and Coffee Distribution History
0 Comments | Posted by Dudy Adityawan in Health, Information
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.
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Drink a Cup of Delicious Coffee Today
0 Comments | Posted by Dudy Adityawan in Health, Information
Coffee is one of the most popular drinks a lot of people. Of every three people in the world, one of them is coffee drinkers. Coffee is so delicious when taken either morning or at night when work is piling up. Coffee is one of the most enjoyed drink a lot of people, who not only drunk, but also enjoyable. Coffee business has become a business tens of billions of dollars, which can only be rivaled by the petroleum business.
Original Coffee
The word coffee or coffee in the English language comes from Arabic qahwah, which means strength. Then the coffee that we know today comes from the Turkish language which kahveh then later became Koffie in Dutch and in English coffee. The word is absorbed into the Indonesian language to be coffee.

