☆ Cacao Drink ☆

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Originally served with achiote, mixed versions are available with vanilla, cinnamon, and sugar (Few 2013, 79).

By the seventeenth century, chocolate drinks were daily staples across all socioethnic groups across colonial Guatemala. Women were socially expected to prepare these beverages given their domestic obligations (Few 2011, 85).

Our rich blend and texture offers the perfect cover for ritual herbs and fluids. Historically, women of all social and ethnic groups were documented practicing hechiceria by mixing cacao into their spellwork, primarily for healing or controlling men's behavior/ sexuality (Few 2011, 86).

 

Costs 1 Real (Spanish Silver Coin)