19 Jun
2018
19 Jun
'18
11:44 p.m.
On Tuesday 19 June 2018 15:40:06 dep wrote:
On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 6:09 PM, Kate Draven
<borglabs4(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Unless you are descended from Monteczuma. Somebody tried to reconstruct the
original royal recipe, and it seems to have contained hot peppers. Now that
would be an interesting spin on chocolate! Oh yes, and then there is that
Mexican dish called mole (ague accent over the E), which contains chocolate.
Chocolate can be so many more things than just candy.
Long ago, an ethnobotanist informed me that all peppers (the plant, not
peppercorns) originated in the highlands of Mexico, near present day Yucatan
and Oaxaca. This, incidentally, establishes that there were some kind of very
ancient connections between the Americas and Africa; because I found
references to an Egyptian text (of the tenth century BCE) that mentions the
use of hot peppers in cooking. Put this together with Olmec sculptures in
Central America (with clearly African features) and it follows that there
must have been some contact between Africa and the Americas by at least that
time.
Bill
Now, onto the important stuff. I completely
disagree with you on coffee
being the first item in the food group. It's clearly chocolate.
chocolate is coffee for children.
dep