Which country did chocolate originate from?

Chocolate originated in South America. At first, local people baked chocolate beans, crushed them and mixed them with herbs and cinnamon to make drinks. Columbus brought chocolate back to Spain in 1952. People found that chocolate tastes better when mixed with sugar, so a workshop for processing chocolate was established in17th century. At that time, chocolate was regarded as the patent of nobles. /kloc-the manufacturing technology of chocolate spread from Italy to Switzerland in the 0/8th century. 18 19 Louise Franks established the first chocolate processing factory in Switzerland. Daniel Bede made the first milk chocolate in 1875, and began to use "fine grinding" equipment in 1879. Since then, chocolate with better taste has gradually formed.