The very first chocolate bar. Until the mid-19th century, chocolate was made for drinking. That changed forever after Fry and Sons of England produced the world's first chocolate bar in 1847.

And the first chocolate house ... George Garthorne, a London silversmith, made the earliest-known silver chocolate pot, or chocolatière, in England in 1685. To go with this, ...

In 1669, the merry monarch, England's first chocoholic, spent £229 10s. 8d. on chocolate. That's significantly more than he spent on tea (just £6), or even what his chief mistress received for ...

"Chocolate was first advertised in England around 1640 as an exotic drink made from cacao beans. In the 1660s, when the Earl of Sandwich collected his recipes, chocolate often came with advice ...

But views shifted, Benjamin said, and chocolate houses, like those in England and Europe, opened in Boston. “And the very first application was actually from two women — Dorothy Jones and Jane ...

While Bristol may have been home to England’s first confectionery company (Fry’s, of Fry’s Chocolate Cream fame) and Cadbury World steals the modern-day chocolate factory limelight, York is ...