The Ancient History of Chocolate

Рет қаралды 206,318

Күн бұрын

Chocolate has an incredible story from the cacao tree to the chocolate that we love today. Discover chocolate’s long lost Mesoamerican history from its South American origins to its cultivation and rise in Mesoamerica.
Thumbnail image by kamazotz, www.deviantart.com/kamazotz/a...
Watch Atlas Altera's video here: • A World Over Steeped |...
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:40 The Cacao Tree
08:36 Early Cacao Use In Mesoamerca
11:24 Maya Cacao Use
16:45 Cacao cultivation and trade in Mesoamerica
20:56 Aztec Cacao Use
23:06 Chocolate in the colonial period
35:45 Etymology of Chocolate
38:50 Conclusion
Patreon: / ancientamericas
Facebook: / ancientamericas
Sources and Bibliography: docs.google.com/document/d/1U...

Пікірлер: 759

@mcammontoya 6 ай бұрын

That 14 page source list is something to behold. You obviously got really into this one! You have no idea how appreciated you are as youtube keeps attempting to shove alternate history ancient aliens bullshit onto my feed. I work in the field of public lands in New Mexico, and if you need any help with finding maps of the US and leads for Southwestern culture sites I'm happy to help you out.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@SnakeBush 6 ай бұрын

dude needs to get into a Amerindian PhD program

@sarahrosen4985 6 ай бұрын

Interesting reading your comment just after watching Milo Rossi's New Mexico volcanos video.

@Feasco 6 ай бұрын

for some reason I believe citing your sources is very cool and popular right now

@Uhshawdude 6 ай бұрын

@@FeascoThanks Tommy for writing this comment! Your mother’s very proud ❤

@alexanderscherer4537 6 ай бұрын

Your videos on ancient American history are sorely needed educational media to close the giant hole in the education system. Thank you for making these!

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@S_C_ 6 ай бұрын

Are Jamaicans Americans?

@Aztecsanddehydration 6 ай бұрын

Fr if i was a teacher, I would be showing some of this guy's videos in class 💯

@alaskansummertime 6 ай бұрын

I've gained a lot of respect for cacao. I'm recovering from congestive heart failure and have been eating mega doses to open up my heart . Usually organic raw powder sweetened with monk fruit in water. I can't prove it works but I'm definitely not having chest pains like I was and I walk several miles every single day. Certainly not laying on my back and dying in a hospital bed. I can see an ancient culture holding this plant in high esteem.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

That's awesome to hear!

@Jet_Rod_94 6 ай бұрын

Get well, friend!

@darkwynggryph 6 ай бұрын

We here in Mexico are retaking some of the more traditional methods of preparation, and I have to say, hot chocolate and water (with a tiny bit of sugar for an extra kick, or to ease the unaccostumed palate like mine) is actually quite delicious! Kudos to the first person that picked up cacao beans and saw their potential!

@Alaskan-Armadillo 6 ай бұрын

I highly recommend mixing chocolate with dried hot pepper then drinking it like that

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

I hope I can try it someday!

@darkwynggryph 6 ай бұрын

@@Alaskan-Armadillo I've tried the solid candy version (it's quite good, the spiciness hits you right at the end), but one of these days I'm doing the drink!

@darken2417 6 ай бұрын

As someone who knows the region I can safely say that this is usually cope and people most often use these traditional methods as a way to save on milk and sugar. Perhaps you are not being cheap but if you invite someone into your house and give them (gasp) water-based hot chocolate they will definitely view you as cheap or poor.

@fenrirgg 6 ай бұрын

Meanwhile you have to pay good money for the experience in a restaurant 😂 @@darken2417

@user-xj6jj6cd7j 6 ай бұрын

36:44 Interesting, in Russian we say with the instead of . And also cacao () in like a funny manner can be pronounced as which is surprisingly similar to how the Maya have written it down

@thekinginyellow1744 5 күн бұрын

Russians might have gotten the word from the French who pronounce it similarly (except minus the final consonant). Or vice versa, who knows.

@eomguel9017 6 ай бұрын

Where to begin? Words cannot describe how blessed I feel by having been born in that majestic land we now call Mexico! Without a doubt, chocolate is one of the most important contributions that our ancient cultures gave to the world. If you ever have the chance to visit Mexico, especially the southern states where indigenous cultures are still thriving, don't miss the cocoa-based traditional drinks such as cacao foam (espuma de cacao), tascalate and tejate. They are drunk cold and there is simply nothing more refreshing during the hot months of the year. As for the etymology, the "xoco atl" or "xocolatl" [bitter water] is the one that I've always heard, including during the Nahuatl language courses I took at the University of Mexico. I'm not sure where you got some facts from, but the 'ch' sound can absolutely be followed by an 'o' sound, like in the words 'choca' [to cry] and 'chochoca' [to whimper]. On the other hand, the inclusion of an 'l' sound in the middle of the word, or the change from 'sh' to 'ch' is not hard to explain at all, just by looking at the deformations of other Nahuatl words borrowed into Spanish. In particular, the 'sh' sound --absent in Iberian Spanish-- that Catholic friars transcribed with the letter 'x' became the modern-day Mexican Spanish mess it is today. Wherever the word comes from, we can only feel thankful for the joy of chocolate in all of its forms in our lives!

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! The bit about the ch and o came from Michael Coe's book (check the bibliography) and I don't recall if that was specific to classic Nahuatl or all Nahuatl dialects but you've taken courses on it so I'm sure you know better than I. I should emphasize though that xocoatl could be the correct word it comes from, there's just a lot of disagreement from scholars about it.

@Feasco 6 ай бұрын

thanks Mexico Thmexico

@shweet7891 6 ай бұрын

Native Americans inherited their culture and where taught by more advanced cultures who built pyramids all over the world. Likely a white aryan race whom came from Atlantis.

@Fakemarcel 6 ай бұрын

⁠@@shweet7891Bud, alternative history channels are that way. Were trying to learn historical facts here, not stupid conspiracy theories.

@lydiawood4863 6 ай бұрын

Hey, I just discovered this channel a week or ago and have been really enjoying it. I have an anthropology degree and have been shovel bumming it for the last 5 years. All that time spent digging in super disturbed area, mostly finding 1950's whiteware kind of burnt me out a little, but seeing stuff like this is a reminder of why I like archaeology so much. One of my professors in undergrad was a Mayanist, and he did research on cacao using chemical analysis on pots. I think Michael Coe was the person who wrote the textbook we used.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! I hope you can work on some exciting projects in the future. Do you mainly excavate in North America? I wouldn't be surprised if Coe was the author, he wrote a lot on the Maya and I've got several of his books. His book, Reading the Maya Glyphs, is a fantastic resource for me whenever I cover Maya topics.

@lydiawood4863 6 ай бұрын

@@AncientAmericas I've only been able to do stuff in the USA. I do cultural resource management, so pretty much making sure no one builds a new power plant over something important. Most of the time we've found nothing. I would really love to do some archaeology outside the States, though! All the Mesoamerican stuff seems to be booming, so if I pivot to doing more academic work, I'll probably end up doing stuff down there.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

That's sounds way more interesting than what I do. Don't get discouraged. You never know where you might find yourself in a few years.

@ronfleetwood944 6 ай бұрын

Come shovel bum in cooper landing, Alaska next summer. I'm the tribal monitor for a highway construction project up there. It's super fun. Company is HDR for the archs

@chris999999999999 6 ай бұрын

One extremely minor note. Cacao beans don't grind up into powder like coffee beans do. They're verry fatty and grind up into something more wet coffee grounds and if you go farther like peanut butter. Cocoa powder is made by pressing the coarsely ground beans (called nibs) to expel the cocoa butter and leave the powder behind. It's not me in the video, but it's what got me started doing it at home: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nsyiirOlz7zZh4k.html.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate the clarification.

@d.strassler9080 6 ай бұрын

@@AncientAmericas I wonder what the etymology of the Spanish word for peanuts comes from cacahuates sounds a lot like cacahuatl

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

@@d.strassler9080 Several people have pointed that out and I was not aware of it when I made the episode. I don't have an explanation for it other than the caca theory being wrong.

@tecpaocelotl 6 ай бұрын

I took my time to watch this video since i consider chocolate a personal thing for me. My ancestors (owners and servents) would grow cacao trees with coffee trees. My grandma would make chocolate drinks from scratch. She also made white chocolate drink with the white cacao butter. Sadly, most people don't know how to make that version. Even though I was in the kitchen with her when she made it, she passed away when i was 7. For thanksgiving, modern tradition I do is I bring the turkey to my mother in law so she can make turkey in mole and turkey mole tamales.

@jakemoeller7850 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for this wonderful video. As a senior citizen, chocolate is still my favorite go-to treat!

@pimpompoom93726 6 ай бұрын

I look forward to each and every one of your videos, please keep them coming! Chocolate AND vanilla, two wonderful contributions to our palates by the Mesoamericans.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@ChristianDoretti 6 ай бұрын

And tomatoes and Potatoes and ofc corn 🫵

@NCRonrad 6 ай бұрын

Two of many. 60% or more of the global food supply has origin in Native American crops

@danielrego81 6 ай бұрын

I'm a brazilian cacao cultivator and this one got me so hyped. lets effing go!

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Enjoy!

@Spawnofktulu007 6 ай бұрын

My wife and I were literally just having this discussion yesteday about chocolate and Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures 😄

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

What a lovely coincidence!

@My_Anarchist_Superhero 6 ай бұрын

Babe…wake up. Ancient Americas has returned, and brings knowledge of My People!

@artificercreator 6 ай бұрын

Way to start the day! Thanks for the video! Greetings from Mexico.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Have a great day amigo!

@artificercreator 6 ай бұрын

@@AncientAmericas Gracias!

@spacebunny4335 6 ай бұрын

Your videos are getting better each time. I really appreciate how you cite all your sources (A rare thing for history KZfaqrs to do unfortunately) and to take good faith feedback and corrections on your videos.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@spacebunny4335 6 ай бұрын

@@AncientAmericas If I could make one suggestion it would be to remind people that the sources are in the description in the video.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Very fair point. I'm inconsistent about mentioning where the bibliography is.

@Replicaate 6 ай бұрын

There's a place near where I live that imports old-style mexican chocolate, and there's almost no wax or milk solids or anything in it, just cocoa mass and sometimes things like sea salt or hot chili for flavor. If that's the closest thing I can get to what chocolate was in the Mesoamerican empires, then I agree with them - it really is food worthy of the breakfasts of kings and gods.

@roberttelarket4934 6 ай бұрын

So where do you live?

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

I'll have what he's having.

@azuredivina 6 ай бұрын

thanks for a wonderful feature on chocolate & its history! my heritage is Mexican so i've been on a journey to learn a lot of traditional culinary recipes, from nixtamalization with metate in tow, to cooking meat in an underground pib we had built a couple of years ago. i grew up, like anyone else, enjoying hot cocoa with milk. the thought of drinking chocolate with plain water seemed unappealing to me. but i had to try it! i'm in San Diego, so we go to Tijuana frequently. i was able to acquire a beautiful Oaxacan made jarrito & so i prepared the chocolate in it with water over a stove. i have to say, i fell in love with the pure flavor of chocolate with the water & was sad when i ran out of my Oaxacan made chocolate. i look forward to going to the artisanal shops again & getting my hands on plenty more. can't wait to try it with some powder made from ground chilies next time, as Chilcacahuatl. just wondering what kind!

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'll have to try that Oaxacan chocolate someday. Sounds delicious!

@HawkemCinco 5 ай бұрын

You have Olmec blood they are black original Mexicans

@marcosdiego4780 6 ай бұрын

Why this video doesn't have 1M views at this point boggles my mind!

@jastermereel4946 6 ай бұрын

i always get so excited when i see you've posted a new video. keep up the good work!

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@lepton31415 6 ай бұрын

you have to wonder how people figured all this out thousands of years ago. excellent video!

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@Gelatinocyte2 6 ай бұрын

Yes! New Ancient Americas video, and it's topical too!

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@atlasaltera 7 ай бұрын

What blows my mind is that new research points to "aeroir" being responsible for cacao developing distinct tastes, not terroir. Turns out cacao is readily fermented by bacteria in the air. Each valley around the world has its own unique airborne concoction. So attributing that premium chocolate bar's price to its origin is spurious but also not necessarily wrong. When you say you enjoy chocoalte from Madaagascar Another cutting edge fact: cacao aficionados are now moving away from the 3 broad cacao varieties towards a model based on ten genetic clusters or primary varieties... Nacional is one of the more famed ones. For those curious about the other stimulants AA refers to in the video, I cover them in my new video. Do let me know if I missed any! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e7d9ltNep93Gcok.html

@kennacate3725 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for a wonderful review of the origins of chocolate!

@aswanb 6 ай бұрын

I can't convey how much I'm inspired by your contribution to our understanding of history and the depth in which you delve to give us a glimpse into the past! Please know that you illuminate the rich cultural and historical significance of what is unknown to many. I appreciate and respect your incredible passion for this work. Thank you so much!

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind words! It means a lot to me.

@xxxencryptacion 6 ай бұрын

Today is Tzolk'in Maya spiritual new years! 13 Lamat (Rabbit/Star) - and tomorrow is 1 Imix (Crocodile) 🎉🎉🎉 the first calendar day sign! Happy cycle community and this is the best video so far as it interplays Popol Vuh and Chocolate 😊😂 learned the most about Mayan story of creation on this channel 🎉🎉

@kantunahau 6 ай бұрын

Yes, tomorrow would be 1 Imix, so it's impossible that today is 13 Lamat since Ajaw (ahau) comes before imix. Today is 13 Ajaw.

@kantunahau 6 ай бұрын

Today, there isn't any particular important inflection or turn in the maya calendar, nor the haab or the long count. Since the count of 260 days is considered not to have a beginning nor an end, as the aj q'ij form the Guatemalan high lands say, they usually consider the important ritual cycles, from which the more revered one is Waxak B'atz' aka 8 Chuwen or 8 Monkey.

@xxxencryptacion 4 ай бұрын

@@kantunahau you count 13 days of the seed sign, that's the dominating energy. Aka 13 day weeks.

@kantunahau 4 ай бұрын

@xxxencryptacion week is a word that necessary means 7 day cycle, and the maya had a 7 day cycle in their calendar too. So, the week is already occupied, and it is better to use another word to describe the 13 day groupings in the 260-day cycle. In Spanish, we say trecena, which means literally a group of 13 like, trecena is like dozen, but for 13, isn't there a word for trecena in English? Any way, back when you wrote your comment saying it was maya new year your were mistaken, the maya that still perform new year rituals are the Kaqchiquel who celebrated in the middle of January and the K'iche' who are going to celebrate it in the middle of February this year. The Classic Maya New Year, according to the agreed correlation and the hieroglyphic inscriptions, should be celebrated in April. So I'm quite confused about what you mean by "Spiritual New Year" and according to what maya people is that celebrated as a new year?

@xxxencryptacion 4 ай бұрын

@@kantunahau F&^% the Spanish, and their colonialism, they essentially eradicated ancient cultures in America. But yes we can call it Trecena of course. The first day of each day sign dominates energy of that Trecena for the entire (13) period. The Seeding Day Sign of the new year is Crocodile, per my original comment, is technically a "spiritual" new year - 1 Imix (Crocodile) 🎉🎉, then you would expand into higher order cycles: 1 Tun (1 year) 1 Ka'tun (20 years_ Time is cyclical , Energy / Quantum Frequency as well, so we 'the followers' of the Great Mayan Kings celebrate a change in cycles :))

@SaszaDerRoyt 6 ай бұрын

Feels appropriate to enjoy this episode with a warm mug of hot chocolate!

@purpleblastoise 6 ай бұрын

Same here lol

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Indeed!

@premodernist_history 6 ай бұрын

Fascinating video. Years ago I had some presumably Mesoamerica-style spicy chocolate drink mix. It was really good. Those two flavors go great together.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm looking forward to trying some made by a professional.

@kailawkamo1568 6 ай бұрын

Here in the Philippines, we have a chocolate dessert called "champurado" which we started making after the Galleon trade began at the height of Spanish colonization. It's like an asian rice porridge but replace the savory ingredients with chocolate 😅

@omegalettexyphonophore3111 6 ай бұрын

I was looking for this comment. This video just made me nostalgic for champorado the more I watched.

@nkoui 6 ай бұрын

Interesting we have the same drink here in Mexico with the same name.

@titan941234 6 ай бұрын

I just grabbed some chocolate cookies, opened youtube and scrolled. What a coincidence.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

What a happy coincidence indeed!

@ovh992 6 ай бұрын

A lot of countries in Europe will serve hot chocolate in the high pour method in fancy restaurants. So this ancient method of preparation eventually made it to Europe. And hot chocolate pots are quite different from teapots. Teapots are short and squat. A hot chocolate pot is tall with a very long neck - for the froth!

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

I didn't know that! Very cool!

@AncientWonderX 6 ай бұрын

Interesting how something as delightful as chocolate has such a rich and divine history. Truly food for the gods.

@lisamoore6804 6 ай бұрын

Mmmmm...chocolate. If I could go back in time I'd give them a hug for figuring this out.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

You and me both.

@robertpenny7180 6 ай бұрын

Great video. I've been studying Mississippian and Late Woodland cultures who made the Black Drink out of Yaupon holly. Now i'm curious how scientists can tell the difference between the residues of Yaupon and Cacao since both are leaving the same signatures of caffeine and theobromine.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! I suspect that the alkaloids in Yaupon Holly are in different proportions and produce a difference chemical signature than cacao but I'm not chemist or biologist so take that with a grain of salt.

@Mockingbird_Taloa 6 ай бұрын

It's worth noting that yaupon is the primary ingredient in kvti okchi, but not the only one--other herbs used in its preparation ought to leave some alkaloid signatures of their own that would make it stand out separate. Kvti okchi is of course a ceremonial preparation--yaupon was drunk by itself, too, but I do wonder if yaupon would actually leave enough of a signature to be effectively detected--it's so much less robust & far less bitter than cacao (or even coffee) when brewed by itself. Relatedly, kvfi (sassafras tea) was probably FAR more common as a day-to-day drink all throughout the southern half of the Eastern Woodlands. I have heard of roots from iti kvfi being used as trade items to places where the trees didn't grow so well. Iti kvfi (sassafras) and iti hishi halupa (yaupon) can serve as indicators of old village sites in our homelands & abandoned post-Removal homesteads to this day--they're one of a handful of useful tress that were deliberately planted wherever people lived, even far outside their natural range.

@cartoontraveller 6 ай бұрын

Quetzalcoatl as the Mayan chocolate God - would be proud of this 🐍🙏🏻🍫

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Yeah... about that... there's a problem with Quetzalcoatl's link to chocolate as you'll see later in the video.

@xxxencryptacion 6 ай бұрын

Kukulkan is the Maya Itza name for the divinity 😊

@cartoontraveller 6 ай бұрын

@@xxxencryptacion sounds a lot like Hulk Hogan 🤔

@ftgrimm1016 6 ай бұрын

not even close xd@@cartoontraveller

@electricVGC 6 ай бұрын

It is very common in Australia for chocolate shops or latin american cafes to have chocolate drinks or chocolate with chili in them :) Really interesting hearing both how it spread and the culture around it, but also why the challenges in cultivating it and making chocolate meant it didn't catch on as much around the Amazon :)

@CaucAsianSasquatch 6 ай бұрын

Always excellent and never disappointing. Magnificent, thank you.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thanks Sasquatch!

@CaucAsianSasquatch 6 ай бұрын

@@AncientAmericas you might be the best English speaking pre-Columbian history content creator on KZfaq. You've earned your position fair and square. I applaud you sir.

@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 6 ай бұрын

Pure speculation, but intoxication back thn did not necessarily mean drunk, and it could be a reference to symptoms caused by excess amounts of caffeine and theobromine, so like the jitters with coffe or being "tea drunk"

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

I didn't think of that but that's a very good point.

@Lazer-bp9lf 6 ай бұрын

Got this recommended in my feed today since I watch lots of history and geography related stuff on KZfaq. Needless to say, this video did NOT disappoint at all! I loved the sources you used here. Of course I lived at the other side of the pond in Asia so chocolate doesn't have much of a rich history here but I have studied history on how choclate was domesticated in the Americas before and after colonialisation. Very informative stuff. I hope you make more quality vids like thisninnthe future. You got my like and sub my guy.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@hasmeunmundodecaramelo6237 5 ай бұрын

From Mexico to the World 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽❤️🇲🇽🇲🇽❤️❤️ I’m proud if my culture this one of the reasons why our gastronomy and it’s so special .🇲🇽

@PhilosoShysGameChannel 6 ай бұрын

You have NO IDEA how topical this is to a world we're presently developing! Thank you! We've been a fan for a while but legit... You coincidentally came out with this episode at the perfect time in our life! Hope you're doin great! Keep up the great work!

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad you found it inspiring. Good luck with the world building!

@geraldmeehan8942 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for another informative and entertaining episode

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

@marjoe32 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for spotlighting these world atrocities, only reason the swiss chocolate taste so good is because of colonialism. So much food that today is a world wide market is soley dependent on the Americans and those who lived on it.

@manuelkfc7916 6 ай бұрын

Hell yeah, another food video!, i love food man, this is simply an enjoyment of actual culture and history along with tasty delicacies, great work bro.

@MichaelWilliamz 6 ай бұрын

Great topic!

@complimentary_voucher 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for this and have a great holiday!

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@markcantrell985 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for this video brother. Loved it!!!!

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@hollymorris785 6 ай бұрын

I enjoyed it immensely as well, thank you!!

@JustSpectre 6 ай бұрын

Excellent and very comprehensive history of chocolate and its relation to ancient cultures of Mesoamerica. With regards to Sahagun's mention of intoxication by cacao, when it's in its original form, if drunk excessively it can bring you to the state of bliss and excitement. It is mainly due to anandamide and other compounds which affect human psyche

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@k.scheer5to1 6 ай бұрын

What a Devilish stunt! I did not get more than two minutes or so into this documentary before I was salivating, and quickly ran to my pantry to scoop up a handful of chocolate bits! Y-U-U-U-M!!

@terrywallace5181 6 ай бұрын

Another interesting, informative and enjoyable video. Thanks.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@steephent 6 ай бұрын

Amazing video, would love to see one on the history of tomatoes!

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

We'll get to tomatoes someday!

@naruto4051 7 ай бұрын

Very interesting video! I never knew how widespread cacao was before Europeans.

@AncientAmericas 7 ай бұрын

Thank you! Who doesn't love chocolate?

@hippopotamouses 6 ай бұрын

Another great one! I look forward to these videos so much!

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@Mockingbird_Taloa 6 ай бұрын

Chocolate and jalapeño ice cream is 12/10 amazing (use fresh, not pickled!) Coca and chipotle make an excellent dry rub for roast meats or steak. For me, the only way I can manage the super-sweet US style hot chocolate mixes is to add in a heck ton of spices to balance it out...I had no idea other people didn't know about spicy hot chocolate! I was blessed to grow up in a majority-Hispanic area and knew that was an option from the start, thankfully. If you want to try some more traditional chocolate beverages at home but can't find any good Mexican chocolate bricks, you can take about 2 tablespoons of coca powder and add that to about 1 tablespoon of fat (coconut oil works well, obvi coca butter is best if you have some), then mix with water. If you've never had spiced hot chocolate, add in 1/8th tsp of cayenne. Allspice (often called "Jamaica pepper" in colonial era documents) was also likely traded and used as a spice pre-colonial & goes excellent in chocolate--just be cautious of how much you use or it'll taste more like pumpkin spice than chocolate.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Ooo! Thanks for the recipe!

@RafaCB0987 6 ай бұрын

It is fascinating how chocolate got where it is today

@-MONTEZUMA 6 ай бұрын

The best channel on this plataform, as always. Keep going champ.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@livestorytheatre 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for this video, and happy holidays! ✨

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Happy holidays!

@wesleyclark2032 6 ай бұрын

You do incredible work - thank you for producing such phenomenal content

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@d2theork75158 6 ай бұрын

Good info! Thank you

@sequoia7837 6 ай бұрын

Always a brighter day when you upload, thx for your immence effort :)

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@ezlectronic7718 6 ай бұрын

It's crazy how ubiquitous chocolate has become, its probably the most popular sweet flavor.

@Pauliey365 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@ChrisRoxDuhh 6 ай бұрын

I am in love with this channel! I was at Chaco Canyon for the annular eclipse, cool to hear it mentioned!

@TrebizondMusic-cm6fp 6 ай бұрын

I'm sipping some old-fashioned, thick, honey-sweetened, molinillo-beaten chocolate as I listen to this.

@sickbubble6059 6 ай бұрын

Molé is a chocolate-Chile sauce used for protein

@doomcrusher3 6 ай бұрын

Great work

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@Aztecsanddehydration 6 ай бұрын

Gotta be my favourite youtube channel 😭 the research was so impressive. I like when you dispel myths, like about the etymology of "chocolate" or the conflation of the Toltec ruler and the god named Quetzalcoatl.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@robwoodke6592 6 ай бұрын

Fascinating as always. Thank you.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@GaryGillKeeper Ай бұрын

I have a massive Amazon advert directly under this video

@markwallace1251 6 ай бұрын

Great job bud!

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@madmanmortonyt4890 6 ай бұрын

Another wonderful essayist, and one who teaches native history! Its a subject I feel is severely underrepresented in American history classes today. Thank you, and great job on the video!

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@pedrozatravel 6 ай бұрын

Well done, very comprehensive

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@chaotic-goodartistry3903 6 ай бұрын

I got the chance to go to a shop that made their chocolate in-house and I ordered a milkshake and man, that was hands down the most amazing milkshake I've ever had, and now I wanna look into making chocolate myself. Freshly made, homemade chocolate is leagues above the store-bought stuff!

@craigstephenson7676 6 ай бұрын

Another great video! I love your channel, it is part of what inspired me to pursue a career in archeology.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! Go get that career!

@craigstephenson7676 6 ай бұрын

@@AncientAmericas I’m getting my undergrad in anthropology right now

@antropofilia1318 6 ай бұрын

That Coatlicue quote was amazing! One of my favorite deities... looking at her statue in the museum in Mexico City was amazing!

@thealgonquin5822 6 ай бұрын

Another excellent video. Thank you.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@carlosmante 6 ай бұрын

Don't forget Vainilla (vanilla) other great source of taste domesticated by the ancien Totonacas of Veracruz, Mexico.

@mayanaztec6440 4 ай бұрын

Amazing history

@CGMC1088 6 ай бұрын

This was a great video and very informative. I'm currently in Mexico and I've been consuming more chocolate. I visited Mexico City and tried Agua de Cacao. I prefer this method of Cacao and water than what we're traditionally use to in the states. I also recommend the Museo de Chocolate in Mexico City as I learned about the history of Chocolate in Meso America.

@Alec.40 23 күн бұрын

awesome, thanks

@tiltiktekwani7562 6 ай бұрын

Great as always, man :)

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@Q-Ball. 6 ай бұрын

This video is incredibly good. Just a joy to watch.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@matthewhuang9588 6 ай бұрын

You have excellent work

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@Yellowbullet714 6 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏 for this information

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

@byan1988 6 ай бұрын

Amazing and informative video, the included citations are incredible 🎉🎉

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@ajcrowley7170 5 ай бұрын

Hey, just wanted to say thanks for all this content. You do a great job, with everything from subject choices to research to presenting content in a balanced way (but an academic way, skipping the crazy that so often gets associated with ancient peoples on the Internet). Production quality is great too. It's been a while since i discovered a channel i enjoy this much. Really hope you keep it going! And if you're looking for subject ideas, a video on the Calusa - maybe focusing on Mound Key or the Pineland site, mentioning the Cushing expedition etc, might be fun. 👍 But yeah, thanks again.

@AncientAmericas 5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@krono5el 6 ай бұрын

The first screw on lids also means the first threading on things too, genius stuff right there.

@lostcrecents 6 ай бұрын

i just want to say i love love your videos so much im currently a history undergrad and your videos have helped me learn so much

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! Long ago, I was once a history undergrad too.

@paytonkelly-mcnally632 6 ай бұрын

Goddamn I love this channel. I wait for every episode since I’ve caught up!

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@TheFortressAtTheTop 6 ай бұрын

This video is a real gem.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@voltanzapata8024 6 ай бұрын

Nice work and research very well put together and respectful of indigenous roots and culture 👍🏼

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@jdwest34 6 ай бұрын

Thanks

@theangryholmesian4556 6 ай бұрын

"Chocolate made with blood from a sacrificial knife" metal af.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

The Aztecs are a pretty metal bunch.

@SuperMetalMage 6 ай бұрын

Pochteca are nuts, one of my favorite aspects to study in "Aztec" history.

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

They are very interesting to read about.

@goldentate5285 6 ай бұрын

The screw on cap is pretty cool

@alanrogerson-rogersonart1936 6 ай бұрын

Awesome video! I just happened to be eating my favorite 85% dark chocolate as I watched. I fully appreciated your correct pronunciation of the native words and names!

@AncientAmericas 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!