Editing Mexican cuisine (section)

=== Chocolate ===
[[File:Chocolate Mexicano Discs.jpg|thumb|right|225px|Mexican chocolate discs]]
In the era pre-dating European influence chocolate was drunk in a warm syrupy form mixed with honey to create a pleasant drinking experience.<ref>{{Citation |last=Walters |first=Dale |title=Food of the Gods |date=5 January 2021 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683401674.003.0001 |work=Chocolate Crisis |pages=1–10 |publisher=University Press of Florida |doi=10.5744/florida/9781683401674.003.0001 |isbn=9781683401674 |s2cid=244331285 |access-date=1 April 2022}}</ref> During this time chocolate was also treated as medicine.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Norton |first=Marcy |date=1 June 2006 |title=Tasting Empire: Chocolate and the European Internalization of Mesoamerican Aesthetics |journal=The American Historical Review |language=en |volume=111 |issue=3 |pages=660–691 |doi=10.1086/ahr.111.3.660 |s2cid=149060221 |issn=1937-5239|doi-access=free }}</ref> After the arrival of Europeans, chocolate was brought across the sea to Europe where it would be used in various forms including medicine and confections. In the modern era, chocolate is used as both a topping and a dip, as well as in candies. The traditional form of chocolate consumption lives on in the form of Mexican hot chocolate, the natural evolution of the warm syrup.