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Hot chocolate to the rescue
In the Aztec empire cacao was so highly prized that captives who proved that they could make delicious cacao drinks would sometimes be spared from being sacrificed. Words by the 16th century Spanish missionary Bernardino de Sahagun, food historian Maricel Presilla and archaeologist Cameron McNeil.
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