# The history of chocolate

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED-Ed
- Speaker: Deanna Pucciarelli
- Year: 2017
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Society and politics, History, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/deanna_pucciarelli_the_history_of_chocolate)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

If you can't imagine life without chocolate, you're lucky you weren't born before the 16th century. Until then, chocolate only existed as a bitter, foamy drink in Mesoamerica. So how did we get from a bitter beverage to the chocolate bars of today? Deanna Pucciarelli traces the fascinating and often cruel history of chocolate. \[Directed by TED-Ed, narrated by Addison Anderson\].

## Lectures

1. [The history of chocolate](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/deanna_pucciarelli_the_history_of_chocolate/506a9191ae5d), 5 min (TED's player)