[guide.chat] jim
- From: vanessa <qwerty1234567a@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 16:38:13 +0100
Hi Jim.
i would not eat it and i love chocolate, but not at two thousand five hundred
years old chocolate, yuch.
vanessa.
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hundred years old found
For goodness sake, Vanessa - did you have to post this?
Remember the chocoholics on here - you'll have Carol swimming the Atlantic
tomorrow to get to Mexico.....
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Subject: [guide.chat] chocolate two thousand five hundred years old found
Archaeologists find traces of 2,500-year old chocolate
Archaeologists say they have found traces of 2,500-year-old chocolate on a
plate in the Yucatan peninsula, the first time they have found ancient
chocolate residue on a plate rather than a cup, suggesting it may have been
used as a condiment or sauce with solid food.
A drink made from cacao beans was believed to have been reserved for the elite
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Experts have long thought cacao beans and pods were mainly used in pre-Hispanic
cultures as a beverage, made either by crushing the beans and mixing them with
liquids or fermenting the pulp that surrounds the beans in the pod. Such a
drink was believed to have been reserved for the elite.
But the discovery announced this week by Mexico's National Institute of
Anthropology and History expands the envelope of how chocolate may have been
used in ancient Mexico.
It would also suggest that there may be ancient roots for traditional dishes
eaten in today's Mexico, such as mole, the chocolate-based sauce often served
with meats.
"This is the first time it has been found on a plate used for serving food,"
archaeologist Tomas Gallareta said. "It is unlikely that it was ground there
(on the plate), because for that they probably used metates (grinding stones)."
The traces of chemical substances considered "markers" for chocolate were found
on fragments of plates uncovered at the Paso del Macho archaeological site in
Yucatan in 2001.
The fragments were later subjected to tests with the help of experts at
Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, as part of a joint project. The tests
revealed a "ratio of theobromine and caffeine compounds that provide a strong
indicator of cacao usage," according to a statement by the university.
"These are certainly interesting results," John S Henderson, a Cornell
University professor of Anthropology and one of the foremost experts on ancient
chocolate, said in an email on Thursday.
Henderson, who was not involved in the Paso del Macho project, wrote that "the
presence of cacao residues on plates is even more interesting ... the important
thing is that it was on flat serving vessels and so presented or served in some
other way than as a beverage."
"I think their inference that cacao was being used in a sauce is likely
correct, though I can imagine other possibilities," he added, citing
possibilities like "addition to a beverage (cacao-based or other) as a
condiment or garnish."
The plate fragments date to about 500 BC, and are not the oldest chocolate
traces found in Mexico. Beverage vessels found in excavations of Gulf coast
sites of the Olmec culture, to the west of the Yucatan, and other sites in
Chiapas, to the south, have yielded traces around 1,000 years older.
But it does extend the roots of Mexican cuisine, and the importance of
chocolate, further back into the past.
"This indicates that the pre-Hispanic Maya may have eaten foods with cacao
sauce, similar to mole," the anthropology institute said in a statement.
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