Word: cacao
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...capital, Mexico-Tenoch-titlán, site of present-day Mexico City, their soldiers waged war with the efficiency of Roman legions. Decked in feathery plumage to simulate serpents and other fearsome creatures, they terrorized their neighbors, bringing back captives and exacting tribute of food, blankets, precious metals and cacao beans (for use as money). In a bloody annual ritual known as the Raising of Banners, they appeased their chief deity Huitzilopochtli, the war god, by killing their prisoners as well as slaves especially purchased for sacrifice by Aztec merchants. In one recorded debauch, some 20,000 victims were allegedly...
...millions of other Americans, for whom the product of the cacao bean is not so much a feast as a fix. Per capita consumption of chocolate in the U.S. last year was 9.1 Ibs.; some $3.4 billion was spent on chocolate products of all kinds. While Americans lag behind Austrians, Belgians, Norwegians, Germans and the league-leading Swiss, U.S. consumption of luxe chocolates (selling for up to $30 per Ib.) is growing steadily. From coast to coast, shamelessly fragrant new boutiques with names like Le Chocolat Elegant, Nutty Chocolatier and La Maison de Bon Bon are blooming...
...Prohibition, indiscriminate tipplers discovered that whisky could be downed with impunity in public places if it were concealed in a glass of milk. A few learned to like it that way and kept the habit after repeal, continuing to order an occasional brandy alexander (cream, brandy and creme de cacao) or a sombrero (milk and Kahlua). But now drinkers are turning in larger numbers to the milky way. Liquor-store shelves are displaying a growing variety of dairy-based, premixed cocktails combining booze and moos...
...further camouflage the liquor taste, generous doses of chocolate, banana, strawberry and other flavorings are added. Federal Distillers in Cambridge, Mass., the first liquor company to go into bovine beverages, has a special Ice Box line that includes such cool, hot sellers as premixed Chocolate Sombreros (creme de cacao with a dairy base), and a Chocolate Chaser (creme de cacao and eggnog). Glenmore Distilleries in Louisville calls its creamy spirits Snowshakes. Chicago's Consolidated Distilled Products is milking the new fad by marketing Aberdeen Cows, which come in unusual flavors such as coconut and walnut. Prices range from about...
...gumshoe in patent-leather footwear, a master of misstatement, a helpless fanatic for crème de cacao, soft, sweet chocolate and Russian cigarettes. Still, Hercule Poirot, famed Belgian-born detective-and literary creation of Mystery Writer Dame Agatha Christie, 84 -never failed to solve a case in all of 37 novels. "An extraordinary little man!" Christie once wrote. "Height, five feet four inches, egg-shaped head carried a little to one side, eyes that shone green when he was excited, stiff military mustache, air of dignity immense!" Alas, last week Christie announced that the archetypal armchair detective...