Grim's Grub: The official food of love | Pine and Lakes Echo Journal
Mesoamerican ingredient was once holy before it was used as currency. 7:00 am, Feb. 23, 2021 × To be fair, there are foods in several cultures that had a holy place in the hearts of that culture's people. There are other foods that were treated as currency, but I don't know that any of those became so synonymous with love. With every food, there is a time when it was first cultivated or used as food. For chocolate, that was 900 AD. It was the Olmecs at first who began cultivating and harvesting large, football size pods from the trees of Mesoamerica. These pods have around 40 cacao...