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It's the world's favourite sweet snack, and the chocolate industry is worth over $100 billion.

Discover the fantastic history of where it comes from, how it became so popular, and learn about some of the economics of chocolate production. 

• The Theobroma Cacao tree: where it all starts
• Aztecs & the early years of drinking chocolate
• The arrival of the Spanish Conquistadors & a ‘bitter drink for pigs’
• Arriving in Europe
• How cacao trees grow (and why it can't in Europe)
• The invention of the cacao press
• The golden era of chocolate
• The industrialisation of the chocolate process
• Chocolate manufacturing & poverty
• Cacao trading & buying futures
• Chocfinger: the man who cornered the world cacao market

Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/chocolate

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