Truth is, when you read something like “First Chocoholics in U.S. Found in New Mexico?” you can’t hold back a smile. That was the title of a recent article published by the venerable National Geographic News, which stated “Chemical residues found on pottery jar shards reveal that the practice of drinking chocolate had spread at least as far north as Chaco Canyon in northern New Mexico by A.D. 1000 to 1125—400 years earlier than chocolate was thought to have reached what is now the United States.”
Read the full article here and don’t forget they serve free hot chocolate every Saturday after 3:15 PM on the Patio at Ski Apache, just minutes away from Vera Cruz Mountain Ranch!