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Chocolate has always been a forbidden food. We love it but we aren’t supposed to. Now you can love it, like it and have more of it if you want. The experts have found out that there really ARE health benefits to eating your chocolate. Where does chocolate come from? Chocolate has enjoyed a long history but, suffice it to say, it comes from the cacao tree. Large pod-like fruits grow on these trees (out of the trun

Today is Valentines Day, and that makes us think of one thing: chocolate. We’d all like to think that chocolate just fell from the skies like nectar from the gods but that’s not so. It did have a little ways to go to be considered sweet to the taste. Here is a little background on the evolution of chocolate. Mesoamerica Chocolate, namely cocoa beans have been used for thousands of years. As early as 250 A.D., a

In my experience, cooks can be divided into two types: the followers and the players. Followers are those who treat a recipe as a blueprint: it must be followed in exact detail. Players are those who treat a recipe like a framework: it gives a basic shape, but within that framework you can make all kinds of changes. My best friend’s daughter is a follower. To her, a recipe is almost like Sacred Writ. Every me