all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned

Sweet Tooth

by mike · 2007-01-14

What the ancient Mayans relished was not solid chocolate as we now know it. Rather, it was a thick, gritty, generally unsweetened frothy beverage composed of ground cacao beans, water, and other spices and flavorings, frequently including vanilla, ground mamey pits, ear flower, chiles, and/or nixtamalized maize (i.e., masa).

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Anonymous says:

2007-01-28 at 10:11:12

yum, ear flower.

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