-
was first grown by the Maya
Indians, who lived in the Amazon region
around -
They mixed cocoa with corn, chilli and spices and
then boiled it. When the Spanish explorer Hernan Cortés reached Mexico -
The Spanish added sugar to the chocolate drink and kept the recipe for making chocolate a secret -
became
the fashionable places to meet and chat, and after
the invention of the cocoa -
chocolate could be mass-produced and so became
available to everybody. -
developed the first solid
chocolate bar for sale. -
The first milk chocolate
bars were produced by the company Nestlé in
Switzerland