Let's Eat A ChocolateThe history of chocolate begins thousands of years ago, when cocoa tree cultivation was practiced in South America. Crowned as the "queen of sweets", chocolate has a long and fascinating history and it was considered a gift of the gods to mortals, having miraculous properties. For most of its history, chocolate has not shown as we know it today, but it was consumed as a drink. Christopher Columbus (1502) was the first explorer to make contact with cocoa beans in the New World. When he brought to Europe, they did not enjoy too much attention, because no one knew what they were using.In 1519, the conqueror Hernando Cortez discovered that Montezu
