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Food and Culture in Latin America: The Case of Chocolate, Dr Mariselle Meléndez (Spanish & Portuguese). With the arrival of the Spaniards to the Americas, food became an instrument of survival and a tool to impose social hierarchies. However, the new environment and their daily contact with indigenous societies transformed how Spaniards thought about food.