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| | The Food Timeline--history notes: ambrosia to corn bread |
 | | By 1780 John Hanan had opened the first chocolate factory under the financing of Dr. James Baker (therein the origin of "Baker's Chocolate," a product still made by General Mills, Inc.). |
 | | Cocoa powder didn't come along until 1828, and the first chocolate bar, made by the Cadbury Company of England, didn't came along until 1842. |
 | | Chocolate cakes, therefore, were a rarity, and it was most probably an American baker who baked the first of them, and the brownie, which would be made with unsweetened or dark chocolate, was among the first. |
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