The document summarizes key points about the history and production of chocolate. It discusses how cocoa beans were used as currency and how Cortez first brought chocolate to Europe. It then notes several important figures in chocolate history, including Coenrad van Houten extracting cocoa butter, Joseph Fry making solid chocolate bars, and Daniel Peter inventing milk chocolate. The summary concludes by mentioning the origins of cocoa trees and the largest cocoa producers today.
The document summarizes key points about the history and production of chocolate. It discusses how cocoa beans were used as currency and how Cortez first brought chocolate to Europe. It then notes several important figures in chocolate history, including Coenrad van Houten extracting cocoa butter, Joseph Fry making solid chocolate bars, and Daniel Peter inventing milk chocolate. The summary concludes by mentioning the origins of cocoa trees and the largest cocoa producers today.
The document summarizes key points about the history and production of chocolate. It discusses how cocoa beans were used as currency and how Cortez first brought chocolate to Europe. It then notes several important figures in chocolate history, including Coenrad van Houten extracting cocoa butter, Joseph Fry making solid chocolate bars, and Daniel Peter inventing milk chocolate. The summary concludes by mentioning the origins of cocoa trees and the largest cocoa producers today.
No. nt Idea g Detail cocoa beans as a form of 1 money
the explorer Cortez was the first person to
2 bring chocolate to Europe presented it to the Spanish Royal Court in 3 Madrid
Coenrad van Houten, (who was Dutch) first person
4 to extract the cocoa butter from cocoa bean (in the 1827.) 5 Joseph Fry, (who lived in England), mixed the cocoa s butter with other ingredients oli to make a d chocolate bar. Daniel Peter, (who was a confectioner in 6 Switzerland), invented milk chocolate 7 Henri NestlÈ developed the process
cocoa tree originally comes from the Amazon
8 rainforests
Brazil, West Africa and Ecuador produce (most of
9 the) 1.5 million-tonne world cocoa crop. Mexicans put chocolate in savoury 10 dishes
It takes all the beans from one cocoa tree to make