THEOBROMA: FOOD OF THE GODS

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THEOBROMA FOOD OF THE GODS
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WHERE DOES CHOCOLATE COME FROM?
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The source of Chocolate is the Cacao tree
(pronounced cuh-cow.)
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Cacao grows in the rainforest within 20 degrees
north and south of the equator.
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The cacao tree is native to Central and South
America. It is thought that the first cacao
trees were in the Amazon and Orinoco River basins.
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• The Maya were the first known consumers of
  chocolate, but

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• they didnt have
• SUGAR
• so they spiced it with..

honey, corn and even chili peppers.
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The Aztec emperors drank the bitter chocolate
concoction they called Xocatyl.
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The Spanish and English took the chocolate bean
to West Africa to start cacao plantations there.
Today, a majority of the worlds cacao is
produced in West Africa, particularly Cote d
Ivoie and Ghana.
Child and even slave labor abuses have occurred
for years on the cacao plantations. Many people
refuse to eat chocolate as a result of the abuse.
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• The slave trade from Africa to the Americas was
  established as a direct result of European demand
  for chocolate because

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• Europeans liked their chocolate mixed with sugar
  which increased the demand for sugar cane and the
  need for cheap labor to grow it.

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The cacao pod is about the size of a football.
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Each pod contains hundreds of cacao beans inside.
The beans are laid in the sun to dry where they
turn brown.
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Drying cacao beans before they are bagged.
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Large sacks of magic beans are then sent to the
factories to start the process of making
chocolate as we know it.
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Cacao is a cash crop in West Africa. Many of
the farmers in places like Cote d Ivoire have
never tasted processed chocolate.
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Cacao beans are shelled and were originally
ground by hand, but now are ground by large
crushing machines that grind them into cocoa
powder.
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• The cocoa powder is combined with sugar, milk and
  vanilla to make chocolate.

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Chocolate in its natural state is very bitter.
Through hundreds of years of experimenting
(including adding brick dust to hold it together
into a bar) chocolate has been refined to the
product we know today.
Baking chocolate has the bitter taste of little
or no sweetener.
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A major innovation came in the late 1800s when
Henri Nestle developed the first successful
process to make milk chocolate.
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A little known (but important) fact phenyl
ethylamine is the naturally occurring substance
in chocolate that produces
The same biochemical reaction occurs when we fall
in love!
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In the USA, Pennsylvania produces more chocolate
than any other state. Why?
It is the home to the Hersheys Company.
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A chocophile considers chocolate a gourmet food.
A chocoholic will consume any chocolate
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The Europeans consume more chocolate per capita
than any other region of the world. There have
even been chocolate battles between member of
the European Union over what constitutes certain
types of chocolate.
First taste of choclolate
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Thank You Columbus!!!
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Ghanaian song from the 1950s
If you want to send your child to school, it is
cocoa If you want to build a house, it is
cocoa If you want to marry, it is cocoa If you
want to buy cloth, it is cocoa If you want to buy
a lorry, it is cocoa Whatever you want to do in
this world It is with cocoa money that you do it.
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Pact to end Africanchocolate slavery

• Ivory coast, Ghana, and Nigeria rank as 1,2,and
  4th in cocoa production
• Multinational companies are accused of creating
  market conditions which encourage child slavery
  and forced labor (driving prices low and keeping
  farmers in poverty)

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Pact to end Africanchocolate slavery

• Chocolate manufactures, human rights groups, and
  Ivory Coast govt signed pact to end industry
  child labor
• Children work in Ivory coast and Ghana cocoa
  fields for little or no wages

• Slave children are from poor areas and some are
  sold by parents for just a few dollars
• Many are thought to be slave labor from Mali,
  est. 15,000

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Ivory Coast protects cocoa farmers

• Long suffering abuses from major chocolate
  companies prompted President to ensure a minimum
  price for cocoa to give farmers their dignity
  back

• Economy of Ivory Coast dependent on cocoa,
  coffee, and palm oil
• Tropical rainforest has been devastated by
  commodity plantations and threatens cocoa
  production