[CH] Chiles & Cocoa go back a long way
Jim DeLillo (jimdel@bellatlantic.net)
Mon, 14 Oct 2002 08:34:30 -0400
I wonder if I can get this at Starbucks??
Hundreds of years ago, a member of the nobility in Central America might
have demanded from a servant a "chile and vanilla cacao water, with a touch
of hallucinogenic mushrooms." Translation: cocoa beans blended in cold
water, flavored with hot chiles, vanilla and potent mushrooms.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/07/17/coolsc.chocolate/index.html