This aphrodisiac appeared on our tables a long time ago, some 500 years, back to the times when Cortes the Great got back to Portugal and among gold and other treasure he brought some seeds of an amazing Aztec plant.

Its name "chocolate" derives from the Aztecan "Xocolatl" where "atle" means "water" and "xoc" - the noise produced during the process of making this drink. Aztecs believed that cacao was given them by nobody else but Quetzalcoatl - the Snake God. Thus he wanted to lighten their troubles and make a new way of recreation for them. Cacao was highly valued and used as currency: a rabbit cost 10 seeds, and a courtesan cost 12 seeds. The legend says that Inca chief Montezuma drank 50 cups of frothy chocolate to increase his potency.

But the Europeans first didn't like the drink because it was too bitter. But some wise man came with an idea to add sugar to the drink resulting in producing divine nectar. Chocolate became a royal drink.

And the great Inca chief was right: