Cacao seeds were so valuable to the Mayans that they used them as a form of currency to buy goods and services, including the services of prostitutes. But it was the Aztecs who elevated chocolate ...

It all starts with the cacao bean. Yes, we spelled that right - cacao is the Spanish word for chcahuatl, which is what Aztecs called the beans chocolate is made from. It’s thought that English ...

The Spaniards noted that the Aztecs could walk long distances without incurring fatigue and suspected a role for the cacao beverage. Historical Mesoamerican documents include instructions for the ...

THE AZTECS of central Mexico attributed the creation of the cacao beans to their god Quetzalcoatl who descended from heaven on a beam of a morning star carrying a cacao tree stolen from paradise ...