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"Chocolate Unwrapped: The Surprising Health Benefits of America's Favorite Passion (Paperback)", by Rowan Jacobsen.
- Chocolate Unwrapped not only explains the positive physical and psychological effects of chocolate, but goes on to explore the colorful history, botany, and chemistry of chocolate, so you’ll understand what to look for and what to avoid. A recipe section provides a multitude of healthy ways to eat chocolate, from flourless chocolate cake to Mexican mole.
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"The Chocolate Therapist (Paperback)", by Julie Pech.
- A user's guide to the extraordinary health benefits of chocolate. Supporting evidence will help readers discover the reasons to Choose Chocolate! A percentage of all book profits go to fund The Dragyn Foundation, an organization she created to benefit worldwide children's programs.
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"The Chocolate Tree: A Natural History of Cacao, Revised and Expanded Edition (Paperback)
", by Allen M. Young.
- In addition to basic natural history of the cacao tree and the relationship between cacao production systems and the preservation of the rain forest, Young also presents a history of the use of cacao, from the archaeological evidence of Mesoamerica to contemporary evidence of the relationship between chocolate consumption and mental and physical health.
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"Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light (Hardcover)", by Mort Rosenblum.
- Although the author had always considered himself a "chocolate ignoramus," after attending a fancy Parisian chocolate tasting he immerses himself in the world of professional chocolatiers. He researches texts on the history of chocolate for amusing anecdotes, but his forte is his knack for going out in the field and talking with the masters. Rosenblum lets the artists teach him how great chocolate is made and how to appreciate its qualities. He travels from the cacao growing fields of Ivory Coast to the kitchens of some of Mexico's finest chefs, from the refined workshops of Paris to the factories of Hershey, Pa.
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"The True History of Chocolate, Second Edition (Paperback)
", by Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
- The Coes, both anthropologists with a culinary bent, delve deeply into the history of their mouth-watering subject. The material on ancient cultures is particularly fascinating--did you know that the Maya used unsweetened liquid chocolate as currency? And in a chapter called "Chocolate for the Masses," they detail the modernization of chocolate manufacture, which has allowed more than 25 million Hershey's Kisses to roll off the conveyor belt each day.
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"Why We Want You to Be Rich: Two Men - One Message (Paperback)", by Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki
- The wildly financially successful authors of this book state, early on, that a reader will not find in its pages specific advice on how to make or invest money. It's more a book of philosophy (note the "why" in the title), and if it's not exactly Kierkegaardian in scope or language, this collaboration of real estate magnate and rags-to-riches financial guru manages to entertain and to inform.
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