National Chocolate Week–5 Things You Didn’t Know About Chocolate

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Held from Oct 12-18, 2015, National Chocolate Week is a delicious seven day celebration in the UK. Even though this holiday is mainly celebrated in the UK, we don’t see why we can’t celebrate too!

From express.co.uk, here are 5 things you may not know about chocolate.

1. The Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire) produces 39 per cent of the world’s cocoa. The second biggest producer is Ghana at 18 per cent.

2. Even before the Mayans and the Aztecs, the Olmec people of Central America were the first to cultivate the cacao plant and eat its beans…

3. …but it was the Mayans, around 300BC, who ground the beans to produce drinkable cocoa.

4. The Mayans also used the beans as currency.

5. The Aztecs continued using the beans as money: one bean for a tomato, three for an avocado, 10 for a rabbit, 100 for a slave.

Here are a few suggestions on local places to buy some great chocolate:

Olive & Sinclaire

Schakolad Chocolate Factory, 443 Cool Springs Blvd

Paul’s Chocolate Gallery, 600 Frazier Drive

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