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Introduction to Chocolate |
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If you are like most of the people, you grew up loving chocolate, but feeling a bit guilty whenever you ate it. Chocolate was indescribably deliciousnobody argued with thatbut it was just somehow bad for you. Was it the fat? The sugar? The reasons were never entirely clear. What was clear, however, was that chocolate was a treat, something to be consumed only after you had eaten enough "good" food to offset the evil effects of the chocolate, whatever they were. You probably thought of chocolate as a guilty pleasure, a sinful indulgence.
But what you had no way of knowingwhat few people knew back thenwas that chocolate had been revered as a sacred, indispensable, and healthy food by the Maya and Aztecs for thousands of years.
Today, we know that the chocolate was bathing your brain in natural endorphins, just as it was for those Maya. Not only that, but it was keeping your heart, blood vessels, brain, and teeth healthy. This was undoubtedly part of the reason why the Maya held chocolate in such esteem. They lovingly tended groves of cacao in the rainforest, called it "the food of the gods," and used it in both their daily life and |
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