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However, it’s not until the Maya people, whose civilisation peaked between 250 and 850 CE, that we find the first evidence of humans consuming chocolate in a more modern form, as a hot drink.

During WWII, everyone in the US wanted to send chocolate chip cookies to the boys at the front. With wartime rationing in effect, we get a recipe that doesn’t use butter or sugar, but shortening, ...