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Preparation of chicha in ancient Hispaniola: washing and soaking the cereal or fruit (left of the image) and cooking (right), America, 1892. Part of the preparation was separated and chewed for a period of time to ferment through the action of saliva (native woman at the bottom), then added to the cooking process. The preparation of chicha according to Girolamo Benzoni, (1519-1570) in Historia del Mondo Nuovo, 1572. From "America. History of its discovery from primitive times to the modern era", written by Rodolfo Cronau, Volume I, published in Barcelona, 1892.