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Chocolate: A Contemporary Confection | 1750—1910

An INDUSTRIAL AGE Innovation

From Prehispanic times until the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, chocolate was largely a handmade product. Time consuming and expensive to produce, chocolate was available only to the wealthy as a beverage.

But new machinery of the industrial age made it possible to create solid chocolate and mass-produce this candy in enormous quantities at a fraction of the original cost. For the first time, most of the general public could afford this tasty treat.

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“Enjoy this whenever it suits your mood,
Not as a drink but as a much-loved food!”

A note written by German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1820 to accompany a box of chocolates.

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