Milton Hershey: A Very Brief History Of Chocolate

Did you know that the smell of chocolate increases the brain waves which generates relaxation? Chocolate dates back to 1000 B.C in Latin America. It gets its name from the Aztec language called Nahuatl. Chocolate comes from dried and fermented seeds of the cacao tree. The cacao bean was generally used as currency at first. Then people begin to use it for drinking, the rich of course but workers would enjoy it time to time too. The wealthy enjoyed drinking their chocolate from decoratively painted chocolate pots. Some Emperors were even buried with jars of chocolate at their side. When the Aztecs conquered the Maya, they wanted to keep the chocolate tradition alive, they dominated the region and continued using the beans as currency, but since the beans would not grow in the Capital City it had to be imported through trading and taxes. The Aztecs drinked their chocolate much like the Mayans but sometimes like it cold. The process of making chocolate involves harvesting coca, refining the coca to cocoa beans. Some people cut the beans open with machetes and the white containing the beans are scooped out. There are 3 main types of

Hershey was determined to find a new formula that would allow him to mass-produce and mass-distribute milk chocolate candy. In 1900, he sold his caramel company for $1 million. Three years later he began building an enormous and modern candy-making facility in Derry Church. It opened in 1905, setting a new course for Hershey and the candy industry. His winning ideas included the Hershey Kiss in 1907, which he named himself. The famous trademark foil wrapper was added in 1924. As the company grew and Hershey's wealth expanded, so did his vision. In the town that came to be known as Hershey, Pennsylvania, Hershey built schools, parks, churches, recreational facilities and housing for his