Pre-Columbian chocolate.

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Americans are among the world's most voracious chocolate eaters. And archaeologists now think that our chocolate habit might go back much further than 1641--the first known reference to chocolate in North America. They recently found what appears to be traces of chocolate in 1,200-year-old bowls excavated in Alkali Ridge, Utah. The discovery hints that there was a lot more contact than we thought between the early people of Mexico, where the cacao tree grows and chocolate was first eaten, and the...