World Chocolate Day: Dolce Vita

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Many people, and the author is no exception, cannot imagine a day without chocolate. How nice to start the day with a cup of coffee or tea and a sweet slice melting in your mouth! Just do not talk about the damage to the figure. Let this worry those who eat it without measure and do not engage in physical education. Thanks to those who came up with this delicious treat and celebrate the holiday: World Chocolate Day.

Who gave the world chocolate?

The navigator and discoverer Columbus brought cocoa beans or "chocolatl" to Spain, which the Maya greatly appreciated. They drank it bitter, adding hot peppers to it, and endowed it with magical properties. Cortes was the first European to appreciate the "food of the gods", adding sugar to the drink. But it was a great and very valuable rarity that only aristocrats could afford.

When the Infanta Maria Theresa was made the wife of the French king, she was very homesick in the huge Versailles and introduced the habit of drinking hot chocolate in her salon three times a week. Instead of bitter, she made herself sweetlife.

In Russia, under Peter, everyone was served coffee at assemblies. And only once chocolate was served at the Austrian envoy. Everyone remembered it.

Chocolate bars and figurines

Only at the beginning of the 19th century, the entrepreneur Kaye from Switzerland managed to get butter from cocoa beans. It allowed the fragrant liquid to be poured into molds and allowed to harden in it. Later, first dry and then condensed milk was added to the tiles.

A delicacy has appeared that has become popular all over the world. Although the recipe was kept secret, the inquisitive minds of the inhabitants of many countries unraveled it and set up a new confectionery production. World Chocolate Day was still a long way off!

Chocolate Capitals of the World

The small town of Bruges in Belgium and its capital Brussels are known to lovers of this delicacy all over the world. They produce the widest variety of varieties and the largest number of sweets and bars in the world: 172,000 tons per year.

Zurich leads Switzerland. From here you can visit one of the first Caye-Nestlé confectioneries.

Perugia, Florence and Turin compete in Italy.

Britain, Germany, Spain and France are also known in Europe. It was in the last country, which experts identified as producing the most exquisite chocolate, was born in 1995, July 11, World Chocolate Day.

Across the ocean in the US, the small town of Hershey and San Francisco are fighting for first place. But there is stillMexico, Argentina, Japan.

And, of course, Russia. Our chocolate is quite different from well-known brands. This is an amateur question. Someone will prefer foreign firms, and someone will like Moscow "Babaevsky" or Samara, Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg, Krasnogorsk, Pokrovskiy more. No wonder the world's only monument to chocolate is installed in Pokrov - the chocolate Fairy, made of bronze.

The Russian Federation loves the "dolce vita". Store shelves are filled to overflowing. The choice is unusually large: milky and bitter, with and without fillers - nuts, raisins, alcohol, dried fruits and porous. The best designers develop bright and eye-catching packaging.

The virtues of chocolate

This is, above all, his unique taste of mystery. Someone loves gentle, melting milk. Another person will prefer vanilla flavored or grated almonds and crushed almonds or hazelnuts. Consider white chocolate. He has many fans. Although, if you look, it's not chocolate at all. It does not contain the main component - cocoa powder. And how good and useful is bitter!

A small slice causes the appearance of pleasure hormones - endorphins in the blood. After eating just a little treat, we experience not only satiety, but also happiness.

Relatively recently, they started talking about the invaluable cosmetic properties of chocolate and began to use it to fight cellulite, excess weight, swelling, increasing skin elasticity with masks, body wraps, baths.

This is facilitated by caffeine and the mass of trace elements that it contains.

So, long live World Chocolate Day, which can give a lot of pleasure! In addition, this product slows down aging, saves us from cancer and dementia, and helps to have a good rest. Even the Mayans and Aztecs believed that it increases the potency in men, and today it is considered an aphrodisiac.

World Chocolate Day: the history of the holiday

In the past, production sites in many countries were simply festivals. Fountains of chocolate hit the streets, and now they can be made at home. More than one product made from it has been entered into the Guinness Book of Records, for example, an Easter egg by a master from Belgium or a tile made in Armenia, weighing more than 4 tons.

Later in France they began to celebrate the day of chocolate as a national holiday. There are so many sweet teeth in the world that this event has moved to other countries. Now everything is more organized and every country participates in World Chocolate Day every year.

He is celebrated everywhere in a big way. Chocolate hotels are being built somewhere, walking in chocolate parks, having spa treatments, painting faces with liquid treats and, of course, tasting all kinds of it.

In Russia, it is especially festive in the city of Pokrov. Fans come here. They will definitely visit the chocolate museum. Tourists will certainly have fun with body art, drawing various drawings on their faces and bodies, and, of course, they will try everything that is offered.