Chocolate has many stories. You can start with Moctezuma the Second, who had a ‘bank’ full of millions of cacao beans – enough to make 25 million chocolate bars. Or with Daniel Peter, who wanted to make something new from chocolate, and tried mixing it with cheese. There are the great names of chocolate – like Fry, Hershey, and Cadbury, who made homes, schools, and gardens for their workers as well as factories.
And there are dark stories too – stories of the slaves who made the terrible journey across the Atlantic to work on the cacao tree plantations. And the children in West Africa who have to work on plantations there to get food to eat and who cannot go to school. Do they pick the beans that make your chocolate?
But the biggest story is the world’s love for chocolate. And when you start to read it, you just have to have a little bit more…
巧克力的故事有很多。你可以從蒙提祖馬二世聽起，他有一個裝滿可可豆的“銀行”，里面有數不清的可可豆，足以做出2,500萬條巧克力。你也可以從丹尼爾·彼得聽起，他想用巧克力做點新鮮東西，就試著把巧克力和奶酪混合在一起。還有一些知名的巧克力品牌，比如福萊、好時和吉百利，它們的生產商不僅建造工廠，還為自己的工人修建住宅、學校和公園。
但是，巧克力背后也有黑暗的故事，比如有關種植園奴隸的事情。這些奴隸經歷可怕的旅程，穿越大西洋到可可樹種植園中做苦工。還有關于西非的孩子們的故事，他們要到當地的種植園工作以換取食物果腹，也無法上學。你的巧克力是用他們采摘的可可豆做成的嗎？
然而，巧克力最精彩的故事要數全世界對它的喜愛。當你開始了解這個故事的時候，你就得多吃一點巧克力了……