【英語泛读】读书有感006.pptVIP

chocolate;; ;;Joy; Have you ever wondered where chocolate comes from? Now, well enter the amazing world of chocolate! ; Chocolate has been used as a drink for nearly all of its history. The earliest record of using chocolate dates back before the Olmec[??lmek](奥尔麦克文化). The Maya civilization grew cacao trees in their backyard, and used the cacao seeds to make a frothy [?fr?θi](起泡的) bitter drink. The Mayas believed that chocolate had mystical properties [pr?p?tis]( 财产)---but cocoa also had commercial [k??m?:??l] (商业的)value. In fact, cocoa beans were used as a form of currency that was worth its weight in gold!;; The cacao tree produces a fruit about the size of a small pineapple. Inside the fruit are the trees seeds, also known as cocoa beans.; Chocolate starts with a tree called the cacao tree . This tree grows in equatorial regions, especially in places such as South America, Africa and Indonesia.巧克力原料来至可可树。这些树生长在赤道地??，特别是美国南部，非洲和印度尼西亚。; The beans are fermented for about a week, dried in the sun and then shipped to the chocolate maker. In the next sections, the chocolate maker will turn these raw beans into luscious chocolate.; The chocolate maker starts by roasting the beans to bring out the flavor. Different beans from different places have different qualities and flavors, so they are often sorted and blended to produce a distinctive mix. Next, the roasted beans are winnowed. Winnowing removes the meat (also known as the nib) of the cocoa bean from its shell. ;There are three basic things that must be done by the chocolate maker to make a chocolate bar: ?Adding ingredients(Blending)【添加成分（混合）】- The chocolate that we eat contains sugar, other flavors (like vanilla) and often milk (in milk chocolate). The chocolate maker adds these ingredients according to his or her secret recipe. ; Once roasted, winnowed and blended, the nibs are ground, and the ground nibs form a viscous liquid called chocolate liquor (the word liquor has nothing to do with a