The history of chocolate - Deanna Pucciarelli
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If 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.
Cocoa has been consumed as a medicine for hundreds of years and is now thought to be heart healthy. Why is that so? (Hint: search the web for chocolate and medicine to read about the vasodilation of arteries)
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Deanna Pucciarelli
- Director Lisa LaBracio
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Sound Designer Weston Fonger
- Associate Producer Jessica Ruby
- Content Producer Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
- Narrator Addison Anderson
