Editing Chocolate milk (section)

==History==
Milk has probably been added to chocolate drinks since both ingredients were available to people. The first domesticated cattle were introduced to the [[Caribbean]] in 1493 by [[Christopher Columbus]].<ref>{{cite journal | title=New World cattle show ancestry from multiple independent domestication events | author=McTavish, Emily Jane | journal=[[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences]] | year=2013 | volume=110 | issue=15| pages=E1398-406 | doi=10.1073/pnas.1303367110 | pmid=23530234 | pmc=3625352 | bibcode=2013PNAS..110E1398M | s2cid=18538738 | doi-access=free }}</ref> Reciprocally, cocoa was introduced in Europe in the 1520s.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sseSDwAAQBAJ | title=Power, Political Economy, and Historical Landscapes of the Modern World | publisher=[[State University of New York Press]] | author=DeCorse, Christopher R. | year=2019 | pages=107| isbn=9781438473437 }}</ref> The [[Natural History Museum, London|Natural History Museum]] lists Anglo-Irish botanist [[Hans Sloane]] as the inventor of drinking chocolate with milk. Sloane found the local Jamaican beverage consisting of cacao and water served to him in Jamaica unpalatable, but by adding milk to it, found it much improved. However, according to historian [[James Delbourgo]], the Jamaicans were brewing "a hot beverage brewed from shavings of freshly harvested cacao, boiled with milk and cinnamon" as far back as 1494.<ref>{{cite web |last=Eveleth |first=Rose |author-link=Rose Eveleth |title=Chocolate Milk Was Invented in Jamaica |url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/chocolate-milk-was-invented-jamaica-180949734/?no-ist |access-date=12 January 2017}}</ref>

In the late 19th century, Swiss entrepreneur [[Daniel Peter]] developed a solid dehydrated version of chocolate milk so that it could be easily portioned, transported and conserved (fresh milk was rare in the cities). He eventually created [[milk chocolate]] in 1875.<ref>{{cite news | language=French | url=https://www.faovd.ch/actualite/556/l-inventeur-oublie-du-chocolat-au-lait/ | title=L'inventeur oublié du chocolat au lait  | trans-title=The forgotten inventor of milk chocolate| work=Feuille des Avis Officiels du canton de Vaud | date=26 March 2023 | agency=[[Canton of Vaud]] | accessdate=14 August 2022 |quote=Doté d’un sens aigu des affaires, il cherche à rendre le chocolat au lait liquide «portionnable» et donc transportable, gageure des temps modernes. À la ville, le lait naturel étant rare et souvent falsifié avec de l’eau et de la craie... |trans-quote=Endowed with a keen sense of business, he seeks to make liquid milk chocolate “portionable” and therefore transportable, a challenge of modern times. In the city, natural milk being rare and often falsified with water and chalk...}}</ref>