Show how it started by JEAN NEWTON OUR HOT CHOCOLATE A HOT chocolate please I 1 the 1 most popular beverage the soda fountain has to offer cocoa has come to be regarded as an american institution that is we never give a thought to whence it came or where and the lover of the hot chocolate should visit cuba or the wes indies and order a cup of his favorite drink there he will find the original and real hot chocolate prepared so thick that one cannot actually drink it but must eat 1 with a spoon for that is how cocoa Is drunk by the natives of america where it had its origin it Is to christopher columbus re turning to spain after his first trip to the cst indies that we owe the knowledge and the use of cocoa or chocolate cho colite which was introduced by him into europe and th me to civil iced america landing on the shores of the west indies he had found the natives drinking the chocolate bever age and among the with which he returned from the new world were some cocoa or properly cacao beans from which Is produced cocoa and eating chocolate it Is interesting to note that the most important species of the cacao tree Is called the which Is greek for food of the gods |