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About American Chocolate Week

United States
EVENT NAME:
Chocolate Week, American
EVENT CATEGORIES:
Food , Retail
United States
Dates Active:
Begins: Mar 16, 2025
Ends: Mar 22, 2025
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National Chocolate Week is an annual promotion supported by the National Confectioners Association. It aims to support the chocolate industry and promote products created from chocolate.

Chocolate beans have been used since around 1900 BC by the people of Central America, usually as a bitter drink, often alcoholic or with red peppers. (It is quite a treat if you’ve never tried hot chocolate with red peppers using hot water instead of milk!)

On his fourth voyage, Christopher Columbus brought this delicious bean to Europe. He noted the encounter in his ship’s log on August 15, 1502.

Later, Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés would bring the bean back in bulk a few decades later (he was only 17 when Columbus found it).

But in its Central American form, it wasn’t the sweet treat we see today. That required several inventions:

John Baker’s process of grounding between millstones of cocoa beans to create a powder in 1764.

Conrad Van Houten’s development of a method for extracting the cacao liquor from the fat in the cocoa bean in 1828 made chocolate affordable.

And finally, the development of conching by Swiss chocolatier Rodolphe Lindt in 1879.

The rest is sweet history.

There are several different types of cocoa beans. Though native to the Americas, nearly two-thirds of cocoa production occurs in Africa today, and Ivory Coast is the largest producer.

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