WEBVTT

00:00:04.210 --> 00:00:05.529
My name is David Wolfe.

00:00:05.529 --> 00:00:08.670
I was born near New York city in America,

00:00:08.670 --> 00:00:10.925
currently residing in Ontario Canada.


00:00:10.925 --> 00:00:16.864
I am a renegade nutritionist,
I am renegade superfoodist

00:00:16.864 --> 00:00:18.759
and infopreneur,

00:00:18.759 --> 00:00:20.800
but above all of that

00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:22.909
I am gastronome.

00:00:22.909 --> 00:00:27.309
I explore unique foods that are available
to us all over the world.

00:00:27.309 --> 00:00:30.680
In 2002 I founded, as part of my work,

00:00:30.680 --> 00:00:32.750
a nonprofit organization

00:00:32.750 --> 00:00:35.810
The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation, 
whose goal is to plant

00:00:35.810 --> 00:00:41.090
18 billion fruit trees 
and nut trees all over the planet.

00:00:41.090 --> 00:00:44.810
We're at about 200,000 right now.

00:00:44.810 --> 00:00:49.469
And, that same year
that we founded this organization,

00:00:49.469 --> 00:00:53.153
a wonderful organization 
filled with amazing people,

00:00:53.153 --> 00:00:59.251
I ran into the most incredible
fruit and nut tree in the world.

00:00:59.251 --> 00:01:01.848
It is the source

00:01:02.080 --> 00:01:04.714
of the Earth's favorite food.

00:01:04.714 --> 00:01:08.453
That's right, the population of the world 
has one favorite food.

00:01:08.453 --> 00:01:10.895
And of course, it's chocolate.

00:01:10.895 --> 00:01:14.540
Now, in my exploration of this
I stumbled into it

00:01:14.540 --> 00:01:17.363
because I was a health food fanatic.

00:01:17.363 --> 00:01:21.221
I never ate chocolate
since I was fifteen years old.

00:01:21.221 --> 00:01:25.119
This was about when I was maybe 32.

00:01:25.119 --> 00:01:28.796
I stumbled into 
this form of chocolate here.

00:01:28.800 --> 00:01:31.338
This is raw chocolate.

00:01:31.338 --> 00:01:34.420
This is chocolate 
in its unique original form,

00:01:34.420 --> 00:01:35.800
a form that is called --

00:01:35.800 --> 00:01:39.610
by the British it is the slang word "coco."

00:01:39.610 --> 00:01:42.500
But it's really cacao. 
That's the real word.

00:01:42.500 --> 00:01:45.871
And is sometimes called a bean, 
but it's really a nut.

00:01:45.871 --> 00:01:49.680
It is the most widely eaten
nut in the world

00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:52.682
that nobody actually eats.

00:01:52.990 --> 00:01:55.350
I was in Hawaii with some friends.

00:01:55.350 --> 00:01:59.022
We were peeling them. They started 
showing up in our smoothies.

00:01:59.023 --> 00:02:01.417
We'd get these coconuts, 
we'd break up coconuts

00:02:01.417 --> 00:02:03.334

and make these incredible drinks.

00:02:03.334 --> 00:02:05.500
We called them superfoods smoothies.

00:02:05.500 --> 00:02:09.169
And we started adding them to these
smoothies and I asked my friend one day,

00:02:09.169 --> 00:02:13.629
I said, "What is this?" 
I didn't know what it was.

00:02:13.629 --> 00:02:16.609
And he said, 
"Oh, just peel the next one, and eat it."

00:02:16.609 --> 00:02:21.225
So, I did eat it. 
And that's what it looks like on the inside.

00:02:21.225 --> 00:02:24.390
And, at that exact moment

00:02:24.390 --> 00:02:27.569
that I ate that food, 
I was touched by the spirit

00:02:27.569 --> 00:02:30.076
of chocolate.

00:02:30.769 --> 00:02:33.769
A food that's archetypically connected

00:02:33.769 --> 00:02:35.970
with winning the golden ticket,

00:02:35.970 --> 00:02:38.769
that's connected with prosperity.

00:02:38.769 --> 00:02:41.369
I was taken on a rocket ride

00:02:41.369 --> 00:02:42.930
across the universe

00:02:42.930 --> 00:02:45.705
in a voyage of discovery 
that has brought me right to you

00:02:45.705 --> 00:02:48.829
at this present moment, right now.

00:02:48.829 --> 00:02:52.772
This food is filled 
with legends and lore,

00:02:52.772 --> 00:02:56.561
which I summarized along with
scientific data and recipe information

00:02:56.561 --> 00:02:58.389
and all kinds of great stuff

00:02:58.389 --> 00:03:00.359
in my book "Naked chocolate,"

00:03:00.359 --> 00:03:04.015
which became the sourcebook 
or a reference book

00:03:04.030 --> 00:03:06.430
for people who are interested
in raw chocolate,

00:03:06.430 --> 00:03:09.960
because all the chocolate we've ever had
has been processed

00:03:09.960 --> 00:03:12.049
through high heat and machines.

00:03:12.049 --> 00:03:14.366
And we thought, 
maybe we should just eat it

00:03:14.366 --> 00:03:17.280
cold processed -- is there a difference.

00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:19.020
And that's we're gonna explore here

00:03:19.020 --> 00:03:23.019
as we delve into the astonishing truth

00:03:23.019 --> 00:03:26.579
about the world's greatest food.

00:03:26.579 --> 00:03:29.969
Chocolate comes from the Mayan lands 
and ancient Mayan farms.

00:03:29.969 --> 00:03:32.900
Chocolate is a Mayan word.

00:03:32.900 --> 00:03:36.299
The word "cacao" is one of the
oldest words

00:03:36.299 --> 00:03:39.389
in use in the world today.

00:03:39.389 --> 00:03:45.629
Some people estimate that 
that word is 15,000 years old.

00:03:45.629 --> 00:03:48.339
The oldest word in the world.

00:03:48.339 --> 00:03:50.877
It was brought to the West 
and brought to you

00:03:50.877 --> 00:03:53.079
by Hernando Cortez.

00:03:53.079 --> 00:03:57.599
He was the conqueror of Mexico. 
It all happened by an accident,

00:03:57.599 --> 00:03:59.609
because Montezuma, 
who was the leader

00:03:59.609 --> 00:04:01.919
of Mexico at that time,

00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:05.646
was in a state of civil war
in Mexico City.

00:04:05.646 --> 00:04:08.909
And when Cortez showed up there 
in 1521, there was --

00:04:08.909 --> 00:04:10.689
they believe that

00:04:10.689 --> 00:04:14.269
Cuauhtémoc himself had come to
the great city.

00:04:14.269 --> 00:04:17.429
Christopher Columbus, 
when he first spotted cacao

00:04:17.429 --> 00:04:19.650
he thought it was almond.

00:04:19.650 --> 00:04:23.650
And this was money for them. 
This is what their currency was.

00:04:23.650 --> 00:04:27.011
Today we use coins. 
Then they used cacao.

00:04:27.011 --> 00:04:28.926
It was their money.

00:04:28.926 --> 00:04:32.090
And he saw -- somebody dropped
some cacao beans on a little boat.

00:04:32.090 --> 00:04:34.850
And they all jumped for it.

00:04:34.850 --> 00:04:40.139
Columbus wrote that these people 
are crazy about almond.

00:04:40.139 --> 00:04:47.359
Montezuma was known to drink 
50 cups of chocolate a day.

00:04:47.629 --> 00:04:50.780
It was always consumed as a drink.

00:04:50.780 --> 00:04:51.990
And there you see the cup

00:04:51.990 --> 00:04:56.424
that Montezuma was known to drink out of,
or one that's similar to that.

00:04:56.424 --> 00:05:00.419
Anyway, how do you turn this bean, 
this nut, into a drink?

00:05:00.419 --> 00:05:03.489
Well, you'll have to break it open,
and eventually

00:05:03.489 --> 00:05:06.700
get all of those cacao beans into a beverage, 
which we'll see later.

00:05:06.700 --> 00:05:09.029
But before we do that,

00:05:09.029 --> 00:05:11.050
we've gotta look at where 
the chocolate comes from.

00:05:11.050 --> 00:05:12.780
This is the chocolate tree.

00:05:12.780 --> 00:05:15.839
And yes, money does grow on trees.

00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:20.360
Still today the number one 
cash crop in the world.

00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:22.380
And it's the best crop

00:05:22.380 --> 00:05:25.686
for keeping indigenous people
in the jungle,

00:05:25.686 --> 00:05:28.949
so that we don't cut down
our sacred forests.

00:05:28.949 --> 00:05:31.068
Every time you choose to buy chocolate,


00:05:31.068 --> 00:05:35.514
organic chocolate, and or, 
what I prefer -- raw chocolate,

00:05:35.514 --> 00:05:38.499
you are voting with your money 
to save the rain forest,

00:05:38.499 --> 00:05:40.130
and it is a vote that counts.

00:05:40.130 --> 00:05:43.598
It's the best vote you can have.

00:05:43.599 --> 00:05:45.659
It grows in a little pod.

00:05:45.659 --> 00:05:48.279
What an interesting looking plant.

00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:50.969
It grows right off the trunk.

00:05:50.969 --> 00:05:51.940
The fruit does.

00:05:51.940 --> 00:05:54.215
And inside --

00:05:54.570 --> 00:05:56.650
there's the flower.

00:05:56.650 --> 00:05:58.360
This is the glory of chocolate.

00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:00.430
Look at the different colors there.

00:06:00.430 --> 00:06:02.649
Inside we see this.

00:06:02.649 --> 00:06:05.970
These are the cacao nuts, 
or the beans, or the nut

00:06:05.970 --> 00:06:08.157
that all chocolate is made out of inside.

00:06:08.157 --> 00:06:11.139
And around each nut is a white pulp.

00:06:11.139 --> 00:06:15.900
And that pulp was traditionally 
in Amazonia and Central America

00:06:15.900 --> 00:06:19.189
where chocolate is from, 
was only eaten by women.

00:06:19.189 --> 00:06:23.522
But men ate the nut on the inside.

00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:27.122
This is what that pulp looks like.

00:06:27.122 --> 00:06:30.250
That's what we call 'The best day ever'.

00:06:30.250 --> 00:06:32.390
When you have that much chocolate, 
real chocolate,

00:06:32.390 --> 00:06:34.250
original chocolate, raw chocolate,

00:06:34.250 --> 00:06:37.339
the fruit than nut, 
the pulp, everything,

00:06:37.339 --> 00:06:40.849
but you gotta watch out, 
because all the creatures in the forest eat it.

00:06:40.849 --> 00:06:42.429
And in fact,

00:06:42.429 --> 00:06:48.416
it is known that if you have a forest
with 140 species of different birds

00:06:48.416 --> 00:06:50.451
then when you put a cacao orchard in,

00:06:50.451 --> 00:06:52.262
and you put it right into the jungle;

00:06:52.262 --> 00:06:54.550
no trees are taken out, 
nothing is cut down.

00:06:54.550 --> 00:06:57.700
You take your little baby cacao plants
or "chocolate trees",

00:06:57.700 --> 00:06:58.939
you put them right in the forest,

00:06:58.939 --> 00:07:03.400
and that will attract at least 
40 more species of birds.

00:07:03.400 --> 00:07:08.217
Birds love to hang out
in chocolate trees.

00:07:08.780 --> 00:07:11.400
It comes back to this;
the coin of the realm,

00:07:11.400 --> 00:07:14.609
the great cacao bean. 
The secret inside.

00:07:14.609 --> 00:07:17.296
We had an amazing discovery early on.

00:07:17.296 --> 00:07:21.486
In that, that cacao bean, the thing 
that all chocolate is made out of,

00:07:21.486 --> 00:07:26.889
is the highest antioxidant food
in the world.

00:07:26.889 --> 00:07:29.710
This was a discovery. 
This was not known ten years ago.

00:07:29.710 --> 00:07:31.879
It is known now.

00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:36.032
Chocolate contains 15 times 
the amount of antioxidants

00:07:36.032 --> 00:07:38.179
as wild blueberries,

00:07:38.179 --> 00:07:42.029
20 times the antioxidants 
as what's in green tea,

00:07:42.029 --> 00:07:46.029
30 times the antioxidants
as red wine.

00:07:46.029 --> 00:07:49.297
All of those pigments of color, 
that are captured,

00:07:49.297 --> 00:07:52.009
that beautiful purple color

00:07:52.009 --> 00:07:54.460
that's the antioxidants; 
it's actually the color.

00:07:54.460 --> 00:07:58.029
And the brown of chocolate 
is the polyphenols

00:07:58.029 --> 00:08:03.382
that protect yourselves and actually 
protect you from aging.

00:08:03.382 --> 00:08:04.519
Listen to this:

00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:09.509
It is known now that chocolate is the number
one longevity food in the world.

00:08:09.509 --> 00:08:10.801
That is known.

00:08:10.801 --> 00:08:14.840
It is the number one food for your heart 
according to the research,

00:08:14.840 --> 00:08:16.009
for your heart.

00:08:16.009 --> 00:08:19.392
It's also a great way

00:08:19.392 --> 00:08:24.794
to party and have a good time 
without a hangover.

00:08:24.794 --> 00:08:28.389
Chocolate grows across 
the temp required that the --

00:08:28.389 --> 00:08:30.720
what we call the tropical belt 
of the world;

00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:36.030
from about 20 degrees north latitude 
to 20 degrees south latitude.

00:08:36.030 --> 00:08:39.619
In that belt. 
And it's originally from the Americas:

00:08:39.619 --> 00:08:41.400
Central America,

00:08:41.400 --> 00:08:43.738
Venezuela, Ecuador.

00:08:43.739 --> 00:08:46.161
Most people now believe that chocolate 
is originally from

00:08:46.161 --> 00:08:48.991
the Orinoco river basin of Venezuela.

00:08:48.991 --> 00:08:52.555
That's where the Spanish
first rolled into and saw tens of thousands,

00:08:52.555 --> 00:08:55.710
even hundreds of thousands 
of wild cacao trees,

00:08:55.710 --> 00:08:57.096
but no people,

00:08:57.096 --> 00:08:59.282
500 years ago.

00:08:59.282 --> 00:09:02.880
I searched all over the planet. 
I visited shamans

00:09:02.880 --> 00:09:05.380
asking them 
what they thought about chocolate.

00:09:05.380 --> 00:09:10.610
This shaman in the Amazon told me 
that you can take the cacao tree bark,

00:09:10.610 --> 00:09:13.984
peel it off, soak it in ice-cold water.


00:09:13.984 --> 00:09:18.981
It releases the gel in 24 hours,
and when you rub that in your scalp,

00:09:18.981 --> 00:09:22.051
it cures male pattern baldness.

00:09:25.330 --> 00:09:26.930
I'm an infopreneur.

00:09:26.930 --> 00:09:29.299
My eyes went into dollar signs, 
when I heard that.

00:09:29.299 --> 00:09:32.426
You mean, there is a product that
would sell more than chocolate itself,

00:09:32.430 --> 00:09:34.280
that comes from the chocolate tree?

00:09:34.280 --> 00:09:36.460
And we're researching this right now.

00:09:36.460 --> 00:09:38.370
First and foremost I am a researcher.

00:09:38.370 --> 00:09:40.020
That's what I love to do, I love to study,

00:09:40.020 --> 00:09:43.061
research and look into the data.

00:09:43.061 --> 00:09:46.223
Chocolate is the number one food

00:09:46.230 --> 00:09:48.839
in magnesium of any food in the world,

00:09:48.839 --> 00:09:51.910
that is the number one mineral
deficiency in the Western world.

00:09:51.910 --> 00:09:55.350
Also, chocolate is the highest 
natural source of iron,

00:09:55.350 --> 00:09:58.263
the highest natural source of manganese

00:09:58.263 --> 00:10:00.692
and the highest natural source of chromium

00:10:00.692 --> 00:10:03.014
of any major food in the world.

00:10:03.014 --> 00:10:06.296
These are very important minerals 
for blood building. 


00:10:06.296 --> 00:10:09.790
They're very important for
stable blood sugar

00:10:09.790 --> 00:10:12.930
and, of course, magnesium de-stresses us.

00:10:12.930 --> 00:10:15.353
Could we use that?
I think so.

00:10:15.353 --> 00:10:17.933
Chocolate is also extraordinarily rich

00:10:17.933 --> 00:10:21.595
in phosphorus, zinc and copper.

00:10:21.595 --> 00:10:26.700
Zinc and copper for healthy nervous system 
and phosphorus for bone.

00:10:26.700 --> 00:10:29.680
We always hear about calcium, 
calcium, calcium.

00:10:29.680 --> 00:10:32.843
Phosphorus, 
we need that for healthy bones.

00:10:32.843 --> 00:10:35.700
And this is why chocolate 
is associated with longevity.

00:10:35.700 --> 00:10:37.690
If you recall,

00:10:37.690 --> 00:10:40.440
there was a great book written years ago,
which we're gonna look at

00:10:40.440 --> 00:10:43.070
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."

00:10:43.070 --> 00:10:47.900
And the Oompa Loompa's had brilliant
pearly white strong teeth,

00:10:47.900 --> 00:10:49.029
because chocolate

00:10:49.029 --> 00:10:51.740
is great for your teeth.

00:10:51.740 --> 00:10:55.520
Chocolate toothpaste is coming.

00:10:55.520 --> 00:10:58.540
This is what the cacao bean looks like 
when you break it open,

00:10:58.540 --> 00:11:00.620
when you break it 
into the different pieces.

00:11:00.620 --> 00:11:02.859
And those are called nibs,

00:11:02.859 --> 00:11:05.569
and these products are available 
here in Finland now.

00:11:05.569 --> 00:11:06.977
And all over the world.

00:11:06.977 --> 00:11:09.658
Raw chocolate products -- 
in fact this industry is now

00:11:09.658 --> 00:11:12.320
over a hundred million dollar industry.

00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:14.110
And it all came from one moment

00:11:14.110 --> 00:11:18.368
when I bit into raw cacao bean.
And for the last 8.5 years,

00:11:18.368 --> 00:11:22.151
I've been proselytizing 
about the power of chocolate

00:11:22.151 --> 00:11:23.770
all over the place.

00:11:23.770 --> 00:11:27.240
In fact it never stops. 
Some people complain about that.

00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:31.862
Anyway, iconically chocolate is associated
with wonder and magic.

00:11:31.863 --> 00:11:33.862
And if you see that giant head
back there,

00:11:33.862 --> 00:11:35.780
that's an Olmec head.

00:11:35.780 --> 00:11:38.980
They're the ones
who originated the word cacao.

00:11:38.980 --> 00:11:42.229
And you can see the bird
in this image as well,

00:11:42.229 --> 00:11:43.580
indicating that connection

00:11:43.580 --> 00:11:48.084
between birds 
in that realm and chocolate.

00:11:48.084 --> 00:11:51.905
Chocolate, as I discovered when I was
studying in Oaxaca Mexico,

00:11:51.905 --> 00:11:54.070
is added to guacamole,

00:11:54.070 --> 00:11:56.030
but not process chocolate,

00:11:56.030 --> 00:11:57.770
raw chocolate.

00:11:57.770 --> 00:12:01.636
They take the crushed up nibs 
and they put it in their guacamole.

00:12:01.636 --> 00:12:03.780
Try it at home.

00:12:03.780 --> 00:12:07.024
I was fortunate I grew up in California
with Mexican people,

00:12:07.024 --> 00:12:11.080
and I was in love with guacamole 
from an early time.

00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:14.380
What an amazing thing 
to have your cuisine expanded.

00:12:14.380 --> 00:12:16.816
And that's what we're doing
with chocolate.

00:12:16.816 --> 00:12:19.920
I got so into chocolate,
I started growing chocolate.

00:12:19.920 --> 00:12:22.520
This is my chocolate nursery in Hawaii.

00:12:22.520 --> 00:12:24.819
I have a farm in Canada, 
I have a farm in Hawaii.

00:12:24.819 --> 00:12:28.250
And the purpose of that farm in Hawaii 
is to grow chocolate and explore

00:12:28.250 --> 00:12:30.399
the mystery and magic 
of this great plant.

00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:33.460
I grew that chocolate tree from seed.

00:12:33.460 --> 00:12:36.910
Such an amazing amount of learning 
can come from growing plants.

00:12:36.910 --> 00:12:39.360
You can learn more from a garden 
many times

00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:41.850
then you can from a book.

00:12:41.850 --> 00:12:44.443
I was very, very excited to explore.


00:12:44.443 --> 00:12:47.211
Maybe there's even more magic here
than we know about.

00:12:47.211 --> 00:12:49.530
Now, I have continued to discover 
that there's little things in,

00:12:49.530 --> 00:12:54.145
anandamide, for example, 
the bliss chemical is present in chocolate.

00:12:54.145 --> 00:12:57.120
The love chemicals, 
phenethylamines


00:12:57.120 --> 00:12:59.181
that are damaged by heat,

00:12:59.181 --> 00:13:01.620
but entirely present 
in raw chocolate.

00:13:01.620 --> 00:13:04.510
There's at least seven of them 
in raw chocolate.

00:13:04.510 --> 00:13:06.138
And those are the feelings

00:13:06.138 --> 00:13:08.139
of love, happiness

00:13:08.139 --> 00:13:13.830
and fulfillment that chocolate gives us.
It's from a chemistry that's in the plant.

00:13:13.830 --> 00:13:17.010
This is the book. 
And if you recall the book,

00:13:17.010 --> 00:13:19.752
I do want to mention
that when I got to chapter 16,

00:13:19.752 --> 00:13:21.294
there was a most amazing citing

00:13:21.294 --> 00:13:23.016
that occured for me 
when I was in Amsterdam

00:13:23.016 --> 00:13:26.514
many years ago.
(Laughter)

00:13:26.514 --> 00:13:30.198
[You] can guess what happens there.

00:13:30.198 --> 00:13:32.048
"Oompa-Loompas!" 
everyone said it at once.


00:13:32.048 --> 00:13:34.731
"Oompa-Loompas! 
Imported direct from Loompaland,"

00:13:34.731 --> 00:13:37.410
said Mr Wonka proudly.

00:13:37.410 --> 00:13:40.300
"There's no such place," said Mrs Salt.

00:13:40.300 --> 00:13:44.110
"Excuse me, dear lady, but.." 
"Mr Wonka," cried Mrs Salt,

00:13:44.110 --> 00:13:46.540
"I am a teacher of geography."

00:13:46.540 --> 00:13:48.980
"Then you'll know all about it,"
said Mr Wonka.

00:13:48.980 --> 00:13:52.590
"And oh, what a terrible country it is! 
Nothing but thick jungles infested by

00:13:52.590 --> 00:13:55.379
the most dangerous beasts
in the entire world --

00:13:55.379 --> 00:13:59.750
hornswogglersand snozzwangers 
and those terrible wicked whangdoodles.

00:13:59.750 --> 00:14:01.958
A whangdoodle would eat 
ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast

00:14:01.958 --> 00:14:04.440
and come galloping back
for a second helping.

00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:07.970
When I went out there, I found the little 
Oompa-Loompas living in tree houses.

00:14:07.970 --> 00:14:10.564
They had to live in tree houses 
to escape from the whangdoodles

00:14:10.564 --> 00:14:12.665
and the hornswogglers 
and the snozzwangers.

00:14:12.665 --> 00:14:14.040
They were practically
starving to death.

00:14:14.040 --> 00:14:18.210
And they were living on green caterpillars, 
and the caterpillars tasted revolting,

00:14:18.210 --> 00:14:21.686
and the Oompa-Loompas spent every moment 
of their days climbing through the treetops

00:14:21.686 --> 00:14:27.230
looking for anything to mix with
the caterpillars to make them taste better.

00:14:27.230 --> 00:14:31.630
The one food that they longed for 
more than any other

00:14:31.630 --> 00:14:35.180
was the cacao bean.
(Laughter)

00:14:35.180 --> 00:14:36.860
But they couldn't get it.

00:14:36.860 --> 00:14:40.779
An Oompa-Loompa was lucky 
if he found 3 or 4 cacao beans a year.

00:14:40.779 --> 00:14:43.500
But oh, how they craved them. 
Listen to this:

00:14:43.500 --> 00:14:46.310
They used to dream 
about cacao beans all night 


00:14:46.310 --> 00:14:50.250
and talk about them all day.

00:14:50.250 --> 00:14:53.750
You had only to mention the word "cacao" 
to an Oompa-Loompa

00:14:53.750 --> 00:14:55.356
and he would start dribbling 
at the mouth."

00:14:55.356 --> 00:14:58.785
Listen closely: "The cacao bean," 
Mr Wonka continued,

00:14:58.785 --> 00:15:01.048
"which grows on the cacao tree,

00:15:01.048 --> 00:15:06.693
is the thing
that all chocolate is made from."

00:15:07.520 --> 00:15:10.489
Roald Dahl knew, 
and it was in the book, 


00:15:10.489 --> 00:15:12.981
the great book 
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."

00:15:12.981 --> 00:15:14.460
Remember the Oompa Loompas.

00:15:14.460 --> 00:15:17.680
This is an elf with a cacao pod

00:15:17.680 --> 00:15:19.901
but the sculpture is 3000 years old. 


00:15:19.901 --> 00:15:23.010
It is intrinsic to the magic
of chocolate.

00:15:23.010 --> 00:15:26.617
In Mexico, this is where the great
cuisine was innovated,

00:15:26.617 --> 00:15:29.620
it was always served as a drink, 
but today

00:15:29.620 --> 00:15:31.978
we have blenders. 
It makes it so much easier.

00:15:31.978 --> 00:15:34.170
You can upgrade

00:15:34.170 --> 00:15:39.179
your smoothie, your protein shake 
by adding a dash of raw cacao

00:15:39.179 --> 00:15:42.858
and bringing forth
the magic and wonder,

00:15:42.858 --> 00:15:44.880
just as they did in Ancient Mexico.

00:15:44.880 --> 00:15:47.977
On the Mexican 100 peso note, 
if you look closely,

00:15:47.977 --> 00:15:52.109
right there next to Xochipilli
are actual cacao recipes,

00:15:52.109 --> 00:15:55.612
iconically represented.

00:15:55.844 --> 00:16:00.963
We've innovated and brought forth now 
an entirely new cuisine,

00:16:00.963 --> 00:16:03.258
brought to the greatest chefs 
in the world,

00:16:03.258 --> 00:16:06.289
revive some of the great additives 
of chocolate,

00:16:06.289 --> 00:16:10.060
creating these wonderful 
and delightful recipes.

00:16:10.060 --> 00:16:14.160
The one question that I get more than
any other, after all of this is:

00:16:14.160 --> 00:16:16.430
Is it possible to o.d. on chocolate?

00:16:16.430 --> 00:16:20.049
and the answer is: Yes.

00:16:20.049 --> 00:16:22.934
Thank you so much. I am David Wolfe. 
Have the best day ever.