Story of Chocolate.

Directions: Read the story. Then using who, which,
where, what, or when? Complete the sentences.

Chocolate first came from Central America. The word chocolate comes from the Aztec word which is use regularly in English. The Aztecs made a greasy, bitter drink called Xocoatl from cocoa beans mixed with cold water, spices, and cornmeal.

The Aztecs used the cocoa beans as a form of money. According to H. Bancroft, who was a historian, “four beans bought some vegetables, ten beans bought a woman, and a slave cost 100”.

The explorer Hernan Cortez was the first person to bring chocolate to Europe. He presented it to the Royal Spanish Court in Madrid and served it with herbs and pepper. Soon it became very fashionable to drink, mixed with sugar and vanilla, and drunk warm.

Conrad Van Houten, who was Dutch, was the first person to extract the cocoa butter from the cocoa beans in 1827.

In 1847, Joseph Fry, who lived in England, mixed the cocoa butter with ingredients to make a solid chocolate bar.

Daniel Peter, who was a confectioner in Switzerland, invented milk chocolate and in the 1870’s. Henry Nestle developed the process.

The cocoa tree originally comes from the Amazon’s rainforests. Brazil, West Africa, and Ecuador that now produce most of the 1.5 million tons of world cocoa crops.

The Mexicans put chocolate to savor dishes. They serve mole which is a kind of chocolate sauce, served on chicken, pork etc. It takes all the beans from the cocoa tree, to make a pound of chocolate.

In the United States, people spend an average of $2:00 a week on chocolate. Women love to buy chocolate more than two thirds of the chocolate, is sold to women. Men eat less than 40 percent. An average American eats between 12 and 16 lb. a year. Most chocolate is eaten at Christmas and Easter.

Chocolate contains small amounts of the chemical phenyl ethylamine, which is also naturally present in the brain and which gives us the same feeling as when we fall in love. The world’s largest chocolate model was a 30 ft. by 15 ft. representation of the Olympic Center in Barcelona.

In 1980, the Swiss police arrested a young couple because they were trying to sell chocolate secrets to foreign powers. They offered the recipes of forty different chocolates to the Soviet and Chinese embassies.

1. The word chocolate, ____________ comes from the Aztec
language, is the only Aztec word in English.

2. The first person to bring chocolate to Europe, was Cortez.

____________ was an explorer.

3. __________ Aztec drink was made from cocoa beans, called
Xocoatl?

4. Daniel Peter, __________ was Swiss, invented chocolate milk.

5. Chocolate, ____________ contains a special chemical,
that makes us feel as if we were falling in love.

6. __________do they mix in Mexican mole, to make the sauce?

7. __________ did the police in Switzerland arrest?

And ________ were they trying to sell to the Russians and Chinese?

8. __________ is chocolate most consumed in America?
Christmas and Easter.

9. ____________ does the cocoa tree come from?

10. ____________ kind of chocolate do you like?

11. ____________ do you buy chocolates?

12. ____________ made the first chocolate bar?
Joseph Fry who lived in England.