Cocoa,
main element of chocolate, was initially a sacred currency among the Indians
of Central America. Christophe Colomb was the first European to taste it.
In Europe, during a long time it remained a drug in the hands of the apothecaries.
The origin of the chocolate goes to the anonymous who firstly had the idea
to sweeten cocoa. The next “fathers”, less modest, passed to
the posterity:
Van Houten, to have known how to extract the pure cocoa powder, Jean
Tobler, to have added milk, and Henri Nestle
to have added flour.