The taste of chocolate and cocoa everyone knows. Many also know that they are prepared from the seeds of chocolate trees. And here is where the homeland of these trees are not well known. We were brought cocoa seeds from Africa. But the birthplace of chocolate tree is South America. How did horrible chocolate tree in Africa? When more than one hundred years ago in a small African village was born a boy named Tete Kvasha, in his homeland do not know what a cocoa. Did not know this tasty drink and in neighboring countries, because then all over Africa did not grow any chocolate tree. Aunt rose, he became a good blacksmith. But life was difficult for him. Aunt decided to leave his native village in search of a better life elsewhere. In foreign places life was not better. And Aunt moved from country to country until he came to the island of Ferdinando By that near Africa in the Atlantic Ocean. There he saw the unusual trees. Their orange fruit resembling a small ribbed melons, hanging straight from the barrels. Inside the fruit was set reddish seeds. Islanders roasted seeds, ground them into powder, brewed with boiling water and prepared a delicious drink, a blacksmith, still have not tried. Leaving home, Tete took with him a handful of wonderful seeds and planted near his hut. Warm and humid climate the Gold Coast was favorable to the aliens. They grew luxuriantly and in a few years have brought first fruits. Aunt prepared drink and treated the guests. Drink they liked, and they began to grow unusual trees. So there were in Ghana, as it is now called the former British colony of Gold Coast, the first grove chocolate trees. Now they are there in abundance. A thousand tons of seeds are trafficked to many countries around the world. Money from the sale of seeds is the main income of the state. Ghanaians can remember whom they are obliged to this. In a small town Mampong – the former village of Tete – is dilapidated hut. It reinforced board with the inscription, is already done after Ghana became a free country. The House late Aunt Kvasha – a great benefactor of Ghana, who died Dec. 22, 1892 year “.