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By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown April 16, 2020 - 10:53am

Learn about the Mesoamerican origins of chocolate!

“Many writers of popular works on chocolate indulge in fantasy when treating cacao’s New World origins,” according to Coe and Coe, “but the facts as revealed by modern archaeology and ethnohistory are far more interesting than these flights of imagination” (Coe and Coe 1996: 33).

https://hraf.yale.edu/the-mesoamerican-origins-of-chocolate-featuring-ehraf-archaeology/