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All About Chocolate: History of Chocolate







Chocolate: A Contemporary Confection

For hundreds of years, the chocolate-making process remained relatively unaltered. But by the mid 1700s, the blossoming Industrial Revolution saw the emergence of innovations that changed the future of chocolate.

A steady stream of new inventions and advertising helped set the stage for solid chocolate candy to become the globally favored sweet it is today.

Take a more detailed look below at the different ways people obtained, made, and used cacao in the recent past and in the present.


Continue to 1750—1910 | An Industrial Age Innovation


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