Mayan Chocolate
Chocolate has a 4,000 year old history in Mesoamaerica with Mexico serving as a central point in the use and evolution throughout the ages.
The Olmec civilization were the first to process cacao into a chocolate drink for ritual, ceremonial, and medicinal use. Eventually, the Mayans brewed roasted cacao mixed with other ingredients, to create the “drink of the Gods” that was revered throughout their culture and cacao beans were even used as currency up until colonial times.
Choco Story Cholcoate Museum
While in the Yucatán Peninsula, we followed the cacao trail all the way to the Choco Story museum at Uxmal. We were fortunate enough to visit on the Day of the Dead while the museum hosted arts, crafts and local food vendors. None of that even came close to what we found inside the museum itself which is a sprawling indoor/outdoor interactive walking trail detailing the history of cacao and the evolution of chocolate in the region and as it was “discovered” and exported to Europe.
