From the Archives: If ever a single ingredient epitomized human nature, it must be chocolate. Can you think of another flavor that has seduced so many cultures?
was sipping Mexican chocolate at a chic little Singapore café. It was a local branch of a New York–based chain, which was started in Israel 20 years ago by a man who grew up with a love for, the wonderful tale by the British novelist Roald Dahl. My hot, frothy drink was modeled on the ancient forms of drinking chocolate that originated in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, mixed with chile, cinnamon, nutmeg, and black pepper.
If ever a single ingredient epitomized human nature, it must be chocolate. Can you think of another flavor we so universally covet? Or one that has traveled so far and seduced so many cultures? It’s known as the food of the gods, and it symbolizes an array of human emotion—from joy and love to passion and peace.
Back in 1896, the first archaeologists to excavate in Chaco Canyon, the pueblo ruins in northwestern New Mexico, discovered 111 cylindrical jars in one particular room of Pueblo Bonito. At the time they had no idea what the jars were for, and around a century later, Crown wondered about it too. So she teamed up with Jeffrey Hurst, a Hershey Technical Center chemist, who analyzed pieces of those jars to determine the organic materials they held.
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