Chocolate 747 - Introduction Into Europe

The Spanish first introduced chocolate to the Europeans. It was brought from the new world as beverage mixed with chili pepper to mask the beans bitter flavor. In an important revolution chili was replaced with sugar thereby creating the chocolate beverage we are familiar with today.

The new sweetened beverage was expensive and therefore was initially only used by the wealthy or nobility.

In England, which was somewhat less class conscience than the rest of Europe, chocolate was available to more than the wealthy. Those who had the money could enjoy chocolate drinks in the coffee and chocolate cafes of London.

As cacao became more available, people began to develop new ways of using it. Chocolate started to appear in cakes, pastries, and sorbets. But we had to wait until 1828 for the "modern era" of chocolate manufacturing and production began.

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