One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.
Franklin P. Jones
The one who Drives when He's been drinking Depends on you To do his thinking Burma Shave
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
Herb Caen
CHOCOLATE part 9 of 10
The earliest cocoa plantations were established in 600 AD, in the Yucatan, by the Mayans.
The fruit of the Cacao tree grow directly from the trunk. They look like small melons, and the pulp inside contains 20 to 50 seeds or beans. It takes about 400 beans to make a pound of chocolate.
The Imperial torte, a square chocolate cake with five thin layers of almond paste, was created by a master pastry chef at the court of Emperor Franz Joseph (1830 - 1916).
The melting point of cocoa butter is just below the human body temperature -- which is why it literally melts in your mouth.
CONTINUED TOMORROW
"As night does not come at once, neither does oppression."
US Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
"And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us some email." -- 4 year old girl, misquoting the Lord's Prayer
OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
