Sunday, December 7, 2008

The True History of Chocolate

Comments:

  1. Theobroma Cacao, chocolate, is known as "the food of gods".
  2. Chocolate was popularized in coffee houses.
  3. Chocolate was introduced to Europe, where it became the stimulating drink of Kings.
  4. Aswedish man named Linnaeus gave the name Theobroma Cacao to the chocolate tree and the meaning.
  5. The word "Cocoa" was often used in British English to refer to "chocolate".

Questions:

  1. Who were the gods that Linnaeus had in mind when he gave Theobroma Cacao its definition???
  2. Where were the coffee houses located???
  3. In what year did Linnaeus give the chocolate tree a name???
  4. How many gods were there???

Vocabulary:

  1. Barbaric- uncivilized; primitive
  2. Commodities- an article of trade or commerce, esp. a product as distinguished from a service.
  3. Defatted- To remove fat from

Literary Terms:

  1. ...if it does not get it, it sheds its otherwise evergreen leaves in a protest that is described as looking like autumn in New England.
  2. ...(an eagerness that was doubled by the fact that among the Aztecs cacao beans were used as money as well as foodstuffs)...

Overeview:

  1. The chapter of the book was basically about how Theobroma Cacoa got its name and defintion. Also about how it became very popular all over the world. Linnaeus was the master mind behind the name and definition. Who knows who the gods were, but him.

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