The last few chapters that I have read were about the reason on why chocolate existed and the unreason. People could not remember the ancient regimes of the 18 century Europe without remembering what happened in1789 to France. For some reason, European and the North American populations were going at a rapid rate. It was not well understood, and while this entire people were poor some of them were not. Because of that, they saw a rapid rise in “consumerism”, number of small manufactures turning out vast quantities of goods, and also textiles for the houses. One of the reasons why everything was improving was because they had advance technology. It didn’t help the poors it only made the rich richer, and the poor poorer. One thing that the poor people enjoyed was pastry and sweets. Chocolate was one of their favorite. For at 28 centuries, chocolate had been a drink of the elite and rich. By the mid 20th century after Kerouac climbed the California mountain, chocolate had been transmuted into a solid food of the masses available everywhere. Van Houten’s wanted a breakthrough, so he decided to mix a blend of cocoa powder and sugar with melted cacao butter and warm water. The result of the chocolate bars was amazing, and this was how the first world’s first true eating chocolate.
“perhaps some day the world of premier chocolate making will return to the rich, delicious, concoction that gave so much pleasure to their lives” (Coe 266).
I agree with this statement because I feel like chocolate is not original anymore. Especially in this time of age, they add more sugar and milk and a little bit of cacao. That is why I feel that the only nation that is supposed to make chocolate is where it came from. It was the first recipe to a chocolate bar, why not just have one recipe rather than a hundred recipes.
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