What a sexiest and unique way to eat chocolate. This will make a full flavor of taste that you can’t imagine, sweet and creaming of chocolate adding by sweet sour taste of strawberry. For this becoming Valentine’s Day, why not you try to give this lovely recipe to your beloved one, so romantic is it? For all couples, I just want to wish happy Valentine’s Day, may your wish will come true and live happily ever after and don’t forget to make chocolate part of your Valentine’s Day celebration.
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Friday, February 8, 2008
Crazy Chocolate for Valentine’s Day
What a sexiest and unique way to eat chocolate. This will make a full flavor of taste that you can’t imagine, sweet and creaming of chocolate adding by sweet sour taste of strawberry. For this becoming Valentine’s Day, why not you try to give this lovely recipe to your beloved one, so romantic is it? For all couples, I just want to wish happy Valentine’s Day, may your wish will come true and live happily ever after and don’t forget to make chocolate part of your Valentine’s Day celebration.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Monday, February 4, 2008
Chocolate Addicted! Is it Like Drug Addict?
Drug addicted? Of course not, similarly to other sweet food, chocolate stimulates the release of endorphins, natural body hormones that generate feelings of pleasure and well-being. General sweetness aside, there are various chemical elements specific to chocolate that may help to stimulate cravings. In fact, chocolate contains over 300 chemicals and it is not known how all of these affect humans. Research showed that many women report particular chocolate cravings when pre-menstrual. This is possibly because chocolate contains magnesium, a shortage of which can exacerbate pre-menstrual tension. Similar cravings during pregnancy could indicate mild anemia, which chocolate's iron content may help to cure.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Traditional Process Making Chocolate Drink
See this picture? What do you think this is? Actually it is some kind of woodcut that called ‘metate ’. This tool used by Mesoamerican civilizations or called Mayan with an element much like a rolling pin to grind cacao beans into paste for making chocolate drinks.
The chocolate of these Mesoamerican civilizations was consumed as a refreshing and nourishing drink made of ground cacao beans and added with a variety of local ingredients.
The frothy chocolate drink, which was sometimes made with water, and sometimes with wine, could be seasoned with vanilla, pimiento, and chili pepper. This mixing beverage unfortunately have a bitter taste because of no any sweetened was add on it.
Monday, January 28, 2008
What comes chocolate?
Saturday, January 26, 2008
History of Chocolate
Introduction to Chocolate
Chocolate is a most popular food or some said junk food in the world. But did u know from what that chocolate been produced. Chocolate comprises a number of raw and processed foods that are produced from the seed of the tropical cacao tree. Native to lowland tropical South America, cacao has been cultivated for three millennia in central America and Mexico, with its earliest documented use around 1100 BC. All of the Mesoamerican peoples made chocolate beverages, including the Maya and Aztecs, who made it into a beverage known as xocolātl, a Nahuatl word meaning "bitter water". The seeds of the cacao tree have an intense bitter taste, and must be fermented to develop the flavor. After being roasted and ground, the resulting products are known as chocolate or cocoa.
Much of the chocolate consumed today is made into bars that combine cocoa solids, fats like cocoa butter, and sugar. Chocolate contains alkaloids such as theobromine, phenethylamine, and anandamide, which have physiological effects on the body. It has been linked to serotonin levels in the brain. Beside its taste are so good and delicious, sweet also, it is good for our health too. So start to enjoy eating chocolate from today.