Some Like it Hot
Phoscao, The Most Delicious of the Heartiest and Most Restorative Breakfasts. Free Shipping of Sample Box. European bodies first made contact with chocolate in the tropics. By default, then, they encountered it as a warm-weather drink. Aztecs drank it as a brew with a thick froth, a preparation they learned from the Maya. Common ingredients besides cacao included achiote, an herbal powder that reddened it, and Chile pepper. Europeans found the idea of drinking an unctuous spi
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The European Chocolate Cup Mancerina i xícara* Alcora Manufactory, tin-glazed earthenware, mid-18th century. Reproduces the fashion of the 17th-century Spanish saucer--which held the cup in metal lattice--with beaker reminiscent of a gourd. Courtesy of the Museu de Ceràmica, Barcelona. Photographed by Gillem Fernández-Huerta. {*Mancerina, named for Pedro Álvarez de Toledo y Leiva, the Marqués de Mancera, Viceroy of Peru from 1639–1648, whose rumored palsy may have been the in