The sweet chocolate adventure started in America, so time along that the continent did not have a name. The first who seeded the cocoa plant were the Maya, the ancient civilisation, and the Yucatan peninsula became the first cocoa plantation. The cocoa plant was so important for the population that it was used as money. Columbus paid no attention to the plant because of his obsession for the Indian routes, while, in 1519, Cortés, the famous Spanish conqueror knew it. He was interested in his value not in the cooking usage, so that  he sequestered all the cocoa plants in order to have enough money. Furthermore, in 1528, he brought in Europe the first cocoa seeds and the necessary implements to seed it. This was the official date of the cocoa landing in our continent.

In 1609, the first cocoa treaty was written and published in Mexico. Around the 1615 Anne of Austria, Louis XIII ‘s wife, introduced in France the chocolate drinking habit. In the first years of the XVIII century, the chocolate arrived both in Italy and in England. In this country the plant become so important that a heavy tax was imposed on it. It would be abolished only 200 years later. The first chocolate emporium was opened in London in 1657. Until 1879 the chocolate was available only in powder or liquid solution while a little bit later it was added some cocoa butter in order to obtain chocolate tablets.