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We need to talk about CHOCOLATE
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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2024
We need to talk about chocolate - The real story of chocolate. Melt chocolates, London's Most Luxurious Chocolate Company makes some of the beautiful chocolates in the world, in some of the most beautiful packaging. Using plastic-free packaging and renewable energy to keep our planet beautiful.
We love telling the real story of chocolate all from the heart of Notting Hill London.
We love telling the real story of chocolate all from the heart of Notting Hill London.
How The Spanish Lost Their Chocolate Crown? ...and ended up with Churros
We need to talk about chocolate... EPISODE III.
The Spanish had a 100 year head-start by taking chocolate from what we now know as South America, and keeping it a secret from the rest of Europe.
But WHAT HAPPENED? The only chocolate the Spanish are known for now is Churros!
Want to read more - read our 'Brief History of Chocolate' blog that spans the thousands of years of chocolates existence...
meltchocolates.com/brief-history-of-chocolate/#:~:text=The%20origins%20of%20chocolate%20in%20Mesoamerica&text=The%20history%20of%20chocolate%20dates,and%20used%20in%20religious%20ceremonies.&text=This%20bitter%20cocoa%20beverage%20was,such%20as%20chilli%20and%20vanilla
The Spanish had a 100 year head-start by taking chocolate from what we now know as South America, and keeping it a secret from the rest of Europe.
But WHAT HAPPENED? The only chocolate the Spanish are known for now is Churros!
Want to read more - read our 'Brief History of Chocolate' blog that spans the thousands of years of chocolates existence...
meltchocolates.com/brief-history-of-chocolate/#:~:text=The%20origins%20of%20chocolate%20in%20Mesoamerica&text=The%20history%20of%20chocolate%20dates,and%20used%20in%20religious%20ceremonies.&text=This%20bitter%20cocoa%20beverage%20was,such%20as%20chilli%20and%20vanilla
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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT CHOCOLATE AND THE CONQUISTADORS - What is the real story of Cortes and Cocoa
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Hero or villain, surely one of the most controversial figures in history. This is the age of discovery and the age of wonder. A moment when the world changed forever. Modern Europe was born. Modern chocolate was born. Speaker: Andrew Nason Location: Melt Chocolates, Notting Hill #chocolate #history #meltchocolate #thehistoryofchocolate #food #cacaoceremony #historyofcacao #hernandocortez #foodb...
What’s the REAL STORY OF CHOCOLATE? Who was Malinche?
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We need to talk about Chocolate. From the heart of Notting Hill we will tell the amazing story of two Amazonian beauties: Malinche and real Chocolate. A princess who became a slave. A slave who destroyed a civilization and a lady who created a new world order. This is the story of La Malinche and her lover Cortes. Speaker: Andrew Nason Company: Melt Chocolate #thehistoryofchocolate #meltchocola...
… waiting now for the next chapters (by example, « how Switzerland became a chocolate leader »)… This first part also tends to prove that a nation might go to bankrupcy when religion takes over : you mentioned the infamous Inquisition, but the spanish crown made a huge mistake when Isabel « la Catholica » decided to ban both Jews and Muslims (unless they became good christians, hence the Inquisition to check that !) out of her territory - so Spain lost it not only with the misuse of its huge amounts of gold and silver (like many countries today with their oil and gas), but also with a narrowminded misconception of what makes the strength of a nation : Spain’s history gives us a spectacular example of how an ethnic and/or religious « purification » makes a country weaker…
great comment and totally agree - wanted to cover this and will try and incorporate it in another deep dive
woww love this! amazing work
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As a decendant of the Mesoamerican people, Herman Cortez was actually gifted the first Cacao beans by the Mexica. The British had no business in the Spanish viceroyalties at that time. 😂. Native crops from the Americas helped better food globally.
No one expect the Spanish Inquisition. I listened to "The Pirate Podcast" so yes I know the story. Good little channel. Nice use of B-roll. You will grow!!! Keep at it.
Great video!
Taste of history and wonderfully sourced chocolates. Informative and interesting. Looking forward to hear more. Way of History lesson for Gen Z
Great hearing on a new perspective in chocolate history. Very interesting and fascinating. Spanish hot chocolate is the best and now I know why.
Except for Churros -and the predilection towards milk chocolate - Spanish chocolate is a thing but its made in Sciliy
The Rest is Chocolate. A new podcast is born. Well done A.
Thank you for your email! I am now subscriber 76!
Wow Great video! Loved the deep dive into how the Spanish kept chocolate a secret for 100 years. The connection to churros is a fun twist! . It’s fascinating to think about how chocolate went from an exclusive secret to the global phenomenon it is today!
Again and again, the black legend, swallow your own lies, losers
Very thought provoking. More videos like this please!
Marie Antoinette is next - chocolate and revolutions
Thanks great comment
Very insightful video! The part about the Spanish Inquisition is a very unique argument 🤔🙏
Video needs music, but good job🤗
I would also recommend the same
Money doesn't grow on trees - try harvesting and selling it. But it's nice that you finally realize that we belong to different cultures. I don't want the raw material but the processed. and I will not change my language because of a foreign culture
midges, not mosquitos, pollinate cocoa
WOW! I thought I knew this history... NOPE! IMHO (Sorry, but "chocolate" bars are good, and those "Cocoa" beans and "Cocoa" pods are inedible...) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Malinche
Are you filming this in a YURT? IMHO
Thank you for adding the arrow to the thumbnail. It really cleared things up.
Great story! A nice retelling of a amazing time in history 🙌🏼
Interesting facts, im not agree with everything though.
A lot of this feels like it was revealed to you in a dream... dumb stuff.
Wooow, it is a really great explanation. Thanks .
The first Mestizos were the children of Gonzalo Guerrero and his Mayan wife.
This is all wrong. Malintzin, as the Aztecs sometimes called her (original name unknown) or Dona Marina, as the Spanish called her, was a Nahuatl speaker who was sold to some Mayans by her mother when quite young, and then gifted or sold to the Spanish. She proved useful to the Spanish because she spoke both the Mayan and Nahuatl languages fluently. She claimed to have been the daughter of a ruler in her native area and does seem to have spoken the courtly dialect of Nahuatl. She was never anywhere near the Amazon, ever. She acted as interpreter and occasional diplomat for Cortes, and bore him a child (voluntarily or involuntarily, we will never know).
Many thanks for your comments- it’s wonderful to receive them and debate one of the most iconic, forgotten and controversial figures in history. It’s great to restore the focus to La Malinche and her importance in history. Malinche’s is Indigenous and that is a source of dignity, pride, and beauty. Her exact genealogy is shrouded in mystery. Unfortunately none of us were there at the time to meet her and hear her story or motivations, where she was born and what she considered to be her lineage or culture - but it seems clear she was a Chantal Mayan from the Tabasco region, descendants of the Olmecs.
@@meltchocolateslondon No, still wrong. You need to read history before you try to teach history. I recommend reading the Memoirs of Bernal Diaz del Castillo, who was with Cortes and knew Dona Marina very well.
@@Schad501 I'm pretty sure Bernal Diaz del Castillo (another European) is going to tell an unbiased factual story of what happened, right?
@@roldiny If you actually read his book, you would see that he had nothing but admiration and respect for her. So, yes, I trust what he had to say on a personal level. Obviously, he had enormous biases against the indigenous people and especially against their religion. That doesn't make him an unreliable narrator. In fact, he's the best source we have for what happened during the conquest.
There is plenty of wrong information in this video. - The mention of the Amazon - The "discovery of a civilisation that nobody had even heard of". Hundreds of civilisations existed and were autonomous. It's of course common for Europeans, especially from violent conquering backgrounds, to refer to Columbus / Cortes as discoverers of new lands. - Saying that the destruction of Tenochtitlan is the reason why we don't know much about chocolate or we call candy bars chocolate!!!?? Mayans, Aztecs, and several cultures in Mexico, Central and South America still consume chocolate in its purest form, coming from the original tradition. What you mean to say is the reason people buy candy bars as chocolate is because of capitalism and maximising profit over quality. And sugar addiction. I am certain the producers of those brands know what real chocolate is. - It is important to mention that Malinche having made a choice to join the Spanish is a mainly European version of the story, whilst the Latin American version is different, so good to mention both as there's no certainty. I like that you have created historical background content for advertisement, but would appreciate tact, respect and accuracy. Thank you!
Many thanks for your comments - the loss of any civilization is tragic but as lovers of chocolate our focus is obviously on the rich, complex and extraordinary culture of Aztecs. Chocolate is a beautiful Amazonian fruit and would have been rightly worshipped by Malinche. She was known as a "lip-possessor, one who speaks vigorously", or "one who has a facility with words" and we can be sure she spoke with wonder and poetry about chocolate.
"Especially from violent conquering backgrounds" Literally every civilization that has ever existed on the face of the earth has violently conquered another civilization or been conquered by one. The America's before Europeans was not some utopian peaceful place, period.
Great first video! I've subscribed!
Aztecs killing and sacrificing hundreds of thousands of people and this guy lamenting a group of people putting an end to their evil……….while living in a yurt. This is peak disconnection.
All societies in history create and destroy. All Empires can both build amazing culture and yet commit horrific acts. No society is free from the judgement of others - both at the time and with the benefit of time. The purpose of our history is not to judge with modern eyes but to immerse ourselves in their time and place, culture and religion.
other historians have claimed that Malinche was Cortez’s sex slave not just his translator and not really his lover. who knows. I don’t know. There are historical theories going both ways. if she was a slave of the Aztecs it might be understandable that she’d jump at a chance to be the conqueror’s slave instead of the conquered’s slave and yes that is all very tragic and not cool in our modern eyes but that was a much much different time so…. yah. Being modern smart people we can learn the history and not do the history the disservice of applying our modern anti slavery values to the past even though we know it was wrong we cannot change the past and all that type of thing. the history of chocalate in the MesoAmerican empires is fascinating and you gotta just gotta go further back in the history on it. They were doing chocalate in MesoAmerica before the Aztecs, before Mayans even, like over 2000 years ago. Fascinating stuff. Tons and tons of youtube videos on it.
Islam promotes taking people as sexslaves and normal slaves
Are you inside a yurt?
Looks like it but now I'm wondering
whatever room he is in, it’s decorated in MesoAmerican decoration so like Mexican or Aztec or even western American Indian designs, like the Navajos. If that’s his actual bedroom that is hilarious like, yah, decorate however however want guy, and that’s quite an hardcore “themed” room. Maybe he has his modern day Malinche with him😅
and a yurt of course is from like, Mongolia or something.
We have created a beautiful space in the heart of Notting Hill - in which we can taste and love chocolate. Yes its a gorgeous Yurt made by hand from a single ash tree
I am confused. You're saying Malinche was Mayan? She was Nahua. And she did not live in the Amazon. She lived on the Mexican Gulf Coast.
Literally... I don't think the Azteca ever waged war in the Amazon, they barely got as far as central America
Malinche was originally mayan, but She was captive by the Aztecs, so She could speak both mayan and nauhatl. The first translators spaniards had mayan to spanish, so She could translate the translators, until She herself learned spanish
Yeah he is incorrect, but She was originally from the tropical parts from the new world, as She was actually mayan, not aztec, She just happen to be able to speak nahuatl
yah the Amazon thing definitely rubbed me the wrong way haha. Am not a historian but being Texan we are relatively familiar with Mexican and Spanish history, which of course involves Texas. It’s like, dude, Amazon is thousands and thousands of miles away from Mexico City or where Tenochtitlan was. And so is the Yucatan peninisula which is hundreds mile south of that Aztec capital that became Mexico City. Like dude it’s not that hard to get those types of details straight when you are telling your cool stories. And he should get them straight regardless of how many views he’s getting.
Its wonderful to debate one of the most iconic, forgotten and controversial figures in history. We wanted to restore the focus to La Malinche and her importance in history. To rebalance the traditional history. Malinche’s is Indigenous and that is the key point. She used her skill, language and beauty to her advantage. Lets call her a survivor - in an extraordinary time. Her exact genealogy is shrouded in mystery. Unfortunately none of us were there at the time to meet her and hear her story or motivations, where she was born and what she considered to be her lineage or culture - but it seems clear she was a Chantal Mayan from the Tabasco region, descendants of the Olmecs. Not an Aztec aristocrat from Tenochtitlan. We feels this explain more clearly what happened and tries to pull back all the layers. Chocolate is a beautiful Amazon fruit which is indigenous to the rainforest in the region. Our use of the Word Amazon is not meant to be geographically precise but states correctly the origin of chocolate.
Wow
Interesting 😮
Thank you!
So informative! Thank you Melt!
Thank you!
I finally understand the story of la maliche, thank you.❤
Our pleasure, thank you for watching!
Not from this, you don't.
Wow, so interesting !!
Thank you!
WOW I CANNOT BELIEVE IT! 3:59
Thank you!