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Podcast: English Learning for Curious Minds
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#126: Chocolate
Category: Education
Duration: 00:19:39
Publish Date: 2021-01-21 23:00:00
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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 transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/chocolate
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