3. The Chocolate revolution

The invention of Van Houten of extracting cacao butter from cacao seeds was an important step in the evolution of chocolate (Velders, 1997). In 1870, Daniel Peters and Henry Nestle, mixed cacao powder with milk and sugar and the first chocolate bar was born (Bailleux et al., 1995; Jamaica-internetpage).According to Roald Dahl (1991), the glory years of chocolate were between 1930 and 1937, as is illustrated in table 1.

 Table 1; The Glorious chocolate years (Dahl, 1991)

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