Journey of the Cocoa Bean The tree theobroma cacao (theobroma, meaning food of the gods in Greek, and cacao is thought to be borrowed from the mixe-zoquean language family and was originally 'kakawa') is originally a native to central and south America...
Lire la suite9 Surprising Foods To Pair With Chocolate You can mimic the techniques of gourmet chefs to make even very simple party food memorable. The main goal is to pair foods that bring a variety of flavors and consistencies together so that the individual foods...
Lire la suiteQuick Double Chocolate Chip Cookies From a Mix Thousands of recipes are available from the Internet. When it comes to free recipes, however, downloading them is a buyer beware situation. Many recipes are excellent, and some are not so good. As I discovered,...
Lire la suiteDark Chocolate - A Boon Chocolates, as we have perceived so far, are known for their awful reputation. Deemed as detrimental to our health, bad for our pearly whites, crammed with high calories and saturated fats, chocolates have typically been undervalued....
Lire la suiteWhat in Chocolate Makes It an Aphrodisiac? As far as we know, the first European to be served with a hot chocolate drink was the Spanish explorer, Hernando Cortez (1485 - 1547). When he first tasted this spicy drink, he was in the court of the Aztec emperor,...
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