TED-Ed
The history of chocolate - Deanna Pucciarelli
TV-PG
2017 • E133 Mar 15, 2017 10mIf you can’t imagine life without chocolate, you’re lucky you weren’t born before the 16th century. Until then, chocolate only existed as a bitter, foamy drink in Mesoamerica. So how did we get from a bitter beverage to the chocolate bars of today? Deanna Pucciarelli traces the fascinating and often cruel history of chocolate.
Lesson by Deanna Pucciarelli, animation by TED-Ed.
Lesson by Deanna Pucciarelli, animation by TED-Ed.