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Apr 18, 2019 · Sir Hans Sloane is famed for his collections, which he bequeathed to the nation in his will and became the foundations of the British Museum, but he is also renowned for bringing chocolate to Britain.
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Sloane was a renowned medical doctor among the aristocracy, and was elected to the Royal College of Physicians at age 27. [5] Though he is credited with the invention of chocolate milk, it is more likely that he learned the practice of adding milk to drinking chocolate while living and working in Jamaica. [6]
May 18, 2018 · Sir Hans Sloane, whose vast collection of objects became the founding collection of the British Museum, is believed to have been the first to combine milk with chocolate – though this is hotly debated.
Apr 27, 2011 · This essay explores the interpenetration of the botanical and the human in Hans Sloane’s engagement with cacao as a species and chocolate as a commodity, in relation to his late seventeenth-century voyage to Jamaica, and subsequent claims that he invented milk chocolate.
Sir Hans Sloane is best remembered, somewhat erroneously, as the man who invented milk chocolate. His relationship with the Hamilton family proved fortuitous when he moved to London at the...
While serving as a physician in Jamaica (Delbourgo, 2017), Sir Hans Sloane saw a popular drink being served: cold chocolate with sugar and spices. He thought it was “nauseous” and added milk (Eveleth, 2014).
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Who invented hot chocolate? Sloane is often thought of as the inventor of drinking chocolate with milk. But historians note that Jamaicans were actually making a hot beverage, brewed with shavings of cocoa, milk and cinnamon as far back as 1494, long before Sloane’s arrival in Jamaica.
