Here you can download Cocoa and Chocolate By Arthur William Knapp Pdf book free online – from Cocoa and Chocolate By Arthur William Knapp Pdf book; When Columbus discovered the New World he brought back with him to Europe many new and curious things, one of which was cacao.
Some years later, in 1519, the Spanish conquistador, Cortes, landed in Mexico, marched into the interior and discovered to his surprise, not the huts of savages, but a beautiful city, with palaces and museums. This city was the capital of the Aztecs, a remarkable people, notable alike for their ancient civilization and their wealth. Their national drink was chocolate, and Montezuma, their Emperor, who lived in a state of luxurious magnificence, “took no other beverage than the chocolate, a potation of chocolate, flavored with vanilla and other spices, and so prepared as to be reduced to a froth of the consistency of honey, which gradually dissolved in the mouth and was taken cold. This beverage if so it could be called, was served in golden goblets, with spoon