It's all part of the annual chocolate festival held in McLean, Virginia. _____________________________________. Visitors see how cocoa nibs3 are ground on a heated stone called matarte with spices and other ingredients to produce a chocolate block. They learn how chocolate was consumed primarily as a beverage4 up to and through the 1880s before the first candy bar was manufactured and distributed.
这是弗吉尼亚州麦克莱恩市一年一度举行巧克力节的一部分。______________________________________. 游客们可以看到为了制作巧克力块，在一块名为matarte的热石上将可可粒，调料以及其他原料一起磨碎。他们了解到，在第一个巧克力棒生产及销售前，巧克力最初是作为饮料出现，直到19世纪80年代结束。
"It is just a little too hard for us to eat like a candy bar. So in Colonial chocolate making, they would have taken chocolate blocks in this form and grate it to make fine chocolate powder.”
“对我们来说，如果像糖块一样吃的话，感觉有点硬。因此殖民地的巧克力的制作中，他们选择将巧克力块磨成细巧克力粉。”
