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Chocolate of Modica
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History
The history of the chocolate to Moderate it unties him along an only thread conductor that historically proceeding to bashful the Siclia unites and particularly the County of Moderate to Spain and it finally finds his/her roots in the marvelous meso-American ceremonial civilization, that of the Aztecs, the ancient inhabitants of Mexico.
To the discovery of the new world the Spaniards had the opportunity diconoscere an extraordinary variety of grocerieses, among these her "Xocoàtl", produced that the inhabitants of the place drew from the seeds of cocoa and of which they had big respect because food able to give strength and vigor but that it was also index of wealth and comfort.
The Aztecs got this prepared grinding the seeds dicacao on a called tool "metate", a bent stone leaned on two transversal plinths, also using a special mattarello it in stone. Cocoa's pasta so gotten you/he/she was mixed with spice and the all you/he/she was rubbed on the "metate" up to when the mixture didn't harden him.
Their domination was lasting in Sicily that the Spaniards introduced the workmanship of the chocolate as you/they had learned her from that people from us so' far.
This chocolate, contrarily to how much subsequently it happened in the rest of Europe, it never passed to the industrial phase being unchanged through the centuries. Today the chocolate is still produced with the same methodology and combining the same ingredients.
In Center America the gimmicks still in the markets to form of little ball.
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