cacao

• Vinson said chocolate was given the name cacao, meaning "food of the gods." —  Crimson White RSS
• In the first--_cacau_, cacauak_, or cacauche_, the "cacao"--we see Landa's letter Ca_, which is doubled in each of the three forms taken from the different codices. —  Aids to the Study of the Maya Codices Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 253-372
• It will be seen from the above that the species-name is cacao, and one can understand that Englishmen, finding it difficult to get their insular lips round this outlandish word, lazily called it cocoa Illustration: CACAO PODS (Amelonado type) in various states of growth and ripeness In this book I shall use the words cacao, cocoa, and chocolate as follows Cacao_, when I refer to the cacao tree, the cacao pod, or the cacao bean or seed. —  Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer
• In old manuscripts the word cacao is spelled in all manner of ways, but cocoa survived them all. —  Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer
• If the fermentation of the cacao were centralised in the various districts, and conducted on a large scale under a chemist's control, the sugars could be obtained, or an alcoholic liquid or a vinegar could easily be prepared Illustration: CHARGING THE CACAO ON TO TRUCKS IN THE PLANTATION, SAN THOM Illustration: CACAO IN THE FERMENTING TRUCKS, SAN THOMÉ. —  Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer

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