On Tuesday 19 June 2018 15:40:06 dep wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 6:09 PM, Kate Draven <borglabs4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Now, onto the important stuff. I completely disagree with you on coffee > > being the first item in the food group. It's clearly chocolate. > > chocolate is coffee for children. > > dep > Unless you are descended from Monteczuma. Somebody tried to reconstruct the original royal recipe, and it seems to have contained hot peppers. Now that would be an interesting spin on chocolate! Oh yes, and then there is that Mexican dish called mole (ague accent over the E), which contains chocolate. Chocolate can be so many more things than just candy. Long ago, an ethnobotanist informed me that all peppers (the plant, not peppercorns) originated in the highlands of Mexico, near present day Yucatan and Oaxaca. This, incidentally, establishes that there were some kind of very ancient connections between the Americas and Africa; because I found references to an Egyptian text (of the tenth century BCE) that mentions the use of hot peppers in cooking. Put this together with Olmec sculptures in Central America (with clearly African features) and it follows that there must have been some contact between Africa and the Americas by at least that time. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
