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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Ceremonial beverages

Ceremonial beverages stories: 1 news summaries

Before It Was Chocolate,
It Was Beer

Sweet treat traced to celebratory Honduran brew 3,100 years ago

(Newser) - Chocolate had its origins at least 3,100 years ago in Central America not as a sweet treat but as a celebratory beer-like beverage, reported scientists yesterday after analyzing residues from ancient pottery vessels. The earliest beverages made from cacao—the source of chocolate—likely were produced by fermenting the... More »

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