Chocolate: the Body Defender and Protector

Attention all chocolate lovers! Did you ever feel bad about sneaking in your favorite chocolate into your daily diet? Or how about going a little bit overboard with the chocolate dessert? Well there’s no need for you to worry. Believe it or not, chocolate is very good for your overall heath! After years of being [...]

The Belgian Hot Chocolate Today

Hot chocolate is a delicious drink that is a cocktail of cocoa powder or chocolate, sugar, and milk. This toothsome beverage can be traced back to the Mayan and Aztec civilizations in which they consumed their chocolate drinks made from roasted cocoa seeds mixed with spices like chili and achiote or annatto. The chocolate beverage [...]

Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Chocolate comprises a number of raw and processed foods that are produced from the seed of the tropical cacao tree. Chocolate has become one of the most popular flavors in the world. Gifts of chocolate molded into different shapes have become traditional on certain holidays: chocolate bunnies and eggs are popular on Easter, chocolate coins [...]

Hot Chocolate Musing

Liquid Indulgence
Bite into a piece of chocolate and your taste buds send you on a gastronomic history that dates back to the mid-1800’s. Yet, sip a cup of a chocolate beverage and you go back in time at least 4,000 years. Although chocolate beverages have changed in appearance and taste over the eons, it’s sometimes [...]

Chocolate and Dogs and Cats

Before we begin to give you additional information on this topic, take a moment to think about how much you already know.
Dogs and cats must NOT eat chocolate. while the reply to chocolate varies from dog to dog based on the measure eaten in relative to its mass, chocolate is venomous to dogs and it [...]