Anyone who has peeled open the golden wrapper of a chocolate bar, sipped a delicious and frothy cup of hot cocoa or dipped a sponge cake and strawberries into a vat of dark-chocolate fondue clearly understands why humans developed a love affair with everything chocolate.
Where would the Easter bunny be today without his chocolaty visage or creme-filled eggs? Young love might never be expressed without the traditional heart-shaped, chocolate sampler gifted on Valentine's Day. So enamored are Americans with chocolate, we each consume nearly 12 pounds of it annually. But few of us realize the intricacies involved with getting that fix of chocolate goodness.
"Life is like a box of chocolates-you never know what you're going to get." said Tom Hanks' character Forrest Gump in the 1994 Paramount movie of the same name. Gump's simplistic yet poignant analogy referred to the sugary surprise within each hand dipped candy inside that sampler. But as any chocolate aficionado knows, the same holds true for chocolate itself. Not all Chocolate is created equal.
Not All Chocolate Is Created Equal
By Beth Douglass Silcox
