Chocolate Popularity in Revolutionary America
While the complete history of chocolate in Revolutionary America has yet
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" Records at Mount Vernon indicate that chocolate was a
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, The Historic Division of Mars,
Incorporated and the Colonial Chocolate Society today announced the launch of
American Heritage Chocolate, the first historically-inspired line of authentic
products celebrating chocolate's important role in the lives of Americans
during the Revolutionary era. The taste experience is unlike any modern day chocolate
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His first recorded
chocolate order was in 1758, for twenty pounds of the product from England; he
continued to buy chocolate throughout his lifetime, with orders ranging from
one pound to as much as fifty pounds.

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Working alongside researchers from the University of California ,
Davis, Colonial Williamsburg, Fort Ticonderoga and many other institutions, we
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prominence in the lives of Americans during the Revolutionary era," said Janis
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"An important part of the unique commitment Mars is making to cocoa
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"It became unpatriotic to drink tea around the time of the Boston Tea
Party, so chocolate became a popular alternative in the colonies," said Jim
Gay, a member of the Historic Foodways department of the Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation and whose area of research is chocolate in colonial America."

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Mars initiated the formation of the Colonial Chocolate Society with the
University of California , Davis, Fort Ticonderoga (in upstate New York) and
Colonial Williamsburg (in Virginia) to pull together all the research and
historical information on cocoa and chocolate during the decades leading up to
and during the American Revolutionary War period."
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J. "The history of chocolate in America is so interesting that we
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Handmade, Authentic Recipe Commemorates Importance of Chocolate
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As the team grew and the
surprisingly interesting findings emerged, Mars began testing selected
authentic recipes and came up with a method to uniformly make these chocolates
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Yet the benefits of cocoa and chocolate were not confined to the wealthy
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