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The History of Chocolate 巧克力的歷史 

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巧克力作為世界上最風靡的食品之一,它被賦予了種種意義。現在大家接觸巧克力最多的場合當屬“情人節”前男女雙方為對方購買包裝精美的巧克力作為禮物。可是當你美滋滋地在品嘗情人送的巧克力時,你可想到過它的發明者和由來?我相信,如果大家下次再送巧克力作為情人禮物時,引經據典地講講巧克力的來歷,肯定會讓你的戀人傾倒不已!  

American-made chocolate and cocoa(可可) products number in the hundreds. There is a fascinating(迷人的)story behind these wonderful products.  

Chocolate Through the Years  

The story of chocolate, as far back as we know it, begins with the discovery of America. Until 1492, the Old World(指歐洲大陸,相對于美洲大陸)knew nothing at all about the delicious and stimulating flavor富有刺激性的口味) that was to become the favorite of millions.  

The Court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella got its first look at the principal ingredient(調料、原料)of chocolate when Columbus returned in triumph from America and laid before the Spanish throne(王位)a treasure trove of many strange and wonderful things. Among these were a few dark brown beans(豆)that looked like almonds(杏仁)and seemed most unpromising(無指望的). They were cocoa beans, today's source of all our chocolate and cocoa.  

The King and Queen never dreamed how important cocoa beans could be, and it remained for Hernando Cortez(科爾特斯), the great Spanish explorer, to grasp(把握住)the commercial possibilities of the New World offerings.  

Food of the Gods  

During his conquest of Mexico, Cortez found the Aztec Indians(阿茲特克印第安人)using cocoa beans in the preparation of the royal drink of the realm, "chocolate," meaning warm liquid. In 1519, Emperor Montezuma, who reportedly drank 50 or more portions daily, served(提供,招待) chocolate to his Spanish guests in great golden goblets(高腳杯), treating it like a food for the gods.  

For all its regal(王室的) importance, however, Montezuma's chocolate was very bitter(苦), and the Spaniards did not find it to their taste. To make the concoction(調制品) more agreeable to Europeans, Cortez and his countrymen conceived the idea of sweetening it with cane sugar.  

The new drink quickly won friends, especially among the Spanish aristocracy(貴族). Spain wisely proceeded to plant cacao in its overseas colonies, which gave birth to a very profitable(利潤高的) business. Remarkably enough, the Spanish succeeded in keeping the art of the cocoa industry a secret from the rest of Europe for nearly a hundred years.  

Chocolate Spreads to Europe  

Spanish monks, who had been consigned(托運) to process the cocoa beans, finally let the secret out. It did not take long before chocolate was acclaimed(受到歡迎) throughout Europe as a delicious, health-giving food. For a while it reigned(主宰)as the drink at the fashionable Court of France. Chocolate drinking spread across the Channel to Great Britain, and in 1657 the first of many famous English Chocolate Houses(作坊)appeared.  

The 19th Century marked two more revolutionary developments in the history of chocolate. In 1847, an English company introduced solid "eating chocolate" through the development of fondant(半軟糖) chocolate, a smooth and velvety(光滑柔和)variety that has almost completely replaced the old coarse grained(顆粒粗糙的) chocolate which formerly dominated(統領) the world market. The second development occurred in 1876 in Vevey, Switzerland, when Daniel Peter devised a way of adding milk to the chocolate, creating the product we enjoy today known as milk chocolate.  

Chocolate Comes to America  

In the United States of America, the production of chocolate proceeded at a faster pace than anywhere else in the world. It was in pre-Revolutionary New England-1765, to be exact-that(可以肯定地說)the first chocolate factory was established in this country.  During World War II, the U.S. government recognized chocolate's role in the nourishment(營養品)and group spirit(士氣、團隊精神) of the Allied Armed Forces, so much so that(到這樣的程度以至于)it allocated valuable shipping space(分配寶貴的船艙空間)for the importation(運輸) of cocoa beans. Many soldiers were thankful for the pocket chocolate bars(塊、條) which gave them the strength to carry on until more food rations(配給)could be obtained. Today, the U.S. Army D-rations(美國陸軍D類配給食品) include three 4-ounce chocolate bars(4盎司巧克力塊)late has even been taken into space as part of the diet(食品供應、食譜)astronauts(宇航員).

 

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