Hot Chocolate
TypeChocolate
OriginMesoamerica
First Known1500 BC
About Hot Chocolate
The Maya and Aztecs drank cold, bitter, spicy cacao. Columbus brought cacao beans to Spain. The Spanish added sugar and served it hot. Paris first chocolate house opened in 1657. The original was thick enough to stand a spoon in. Cacao beans were used as currency in Aztec times.