{"id":1973,"date":"2023-09-05T11:41:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T11:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silviobessone.it\/the-history-of-cocoa\/"},"modified":"2023-10-23T14:10:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T14:10:43","slug":"the-history-of-cocoa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.silviobessone.it\/en\/the-history-of-cocoa\/","title":{"rendered":"THE HISTORY OF COCOA"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1973\" class=\"elementor elementor-1973 elementor-482\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-34882df elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"34882df\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column 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href=\"https:\/\/www.silviobessone.it\/en\/the-history-of-cocoa\/\" class=\"elementor-item\" tabindex=\"-1\">THE HISTORY OF COCOA<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2437\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silviobessone.it\/en\/the-planet-of-hazelnuts\/\" class=\"elementor-item\" tabindex=\"-1\">THE PLANET OF HAZELNUTS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t<\/nav>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1e9c473\" data-id=\"1e9c473\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b2eb70a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b2eb70a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">THE HISTORY OF COCOA<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5e37965 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5e37965\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>&#8220;A beautiful <em>Aztec princess<\/em> was left to guard the treasure of her groom, who had left for war.<\/p>\n<p>One day she was attacked by enemies who wanted to force her to reveal where the treasure was.<\/p>\n<p>The princess preferred to die rather than reveal the secret.<\/p>\n<p>Legend has it that from her blood sprang a plant with seeds as bitter as her suffering, as strong as her virtue, and as red as her blood.<\/p>\n<p><em>It was the cocoa plant<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It was actually the Maya who first used the cocoa plant.<\/p>\n<p>They prepared a drink called <strong>&#8220;Xocolatl&#8221;<\/strong> by mixing water and spices with the powder made by crushing roasted cocoa beans.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4c9fe12 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4c9fe12\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-584 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.silviobessone.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/storia1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silviobessone.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/storia1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.silviobessone.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/storia1-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is discovered between <strong>1540<\/strong> and <strong>1550<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Girolamo Benzoni<\/em> was the first to taste it and judged it, <em>&#8220;more food for pigs than for men,&#8221;<\/em> but later the Florentine <em>Francesco Carletti<\/em> in the early <strong>1600s<\/strong> breaking the Spanish monopoly began to import cocoa into Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The story goes that the first sack of cocoa arrived in Spain in <strong>1585<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Cacao is subjected to a long production chain that extends from the small landowner, often in remote and technologically backward tropical regions, to factories and consumers in highly developed industrial countries.<\/p>\n<p>Like any crop, it is susceptible to climate change and disease, and social and economic factors.<\/p>\n<p>Cocoa supply continued to grow between the 1980s and 1990s despite low world market prices.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, demand for cocoa has settled with supply and increased firmly.<\/p>\n<p>The price of cocoa is determined in the open markets of New York and London based on supply and 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