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Columbus returns from his voyage. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella were presented with many strange and wonderful things… the few dark brown beans that looked like almonds didn’t get a lot of attention.
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The first shipment of beans intended for the market makes it to Spain.
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200 small cocoa beans were valued at 1 Spanish real, or 4 cents.
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An Avant Guard, London Coffee House called At the Coffee Mill and Tobacco Roll, goes down in the annals of history for serving chocolate in cakes, and also in rolls… in the Spanish style.
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Diligently forging the concept of Democracy, Americans take time out to discover Chocolate.
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The production of chocolate proceeded at a faster pace than anywhere else in the world. It was in pre-Revolutionary New England.
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The first machine-made chocolate is produced in Barcelona.
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Rodolphe Lindt of Berne, Switzerland, invented "conching", a means of heating and rolling chocolate to refine it. After chocolate has been conched for 72 hours and has more cocoa butter added to it, chocolate becomes "fondant" and it melts in your mouth!
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The Chocolate Manufacturers Association of the United States of America (CMA) was organized in.
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The New York Cocoa Exchange, located at the World Trade Center, was begun so that buyers and sellers could get together for transactions.
