Chocolate, the Magnificent Obsession

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By Sheila Lukins and Julee Rosso

Published 1989

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We are a nation passionate about chocolate, but we are not alone. The Aztecs discovered it and called it food for the gods, the Spanish spiced it, the French court drank it morning, noon, and night, the Belgians shaped and gilded it, the Dutch powdered it for cocoa, the Swiss fondued it, and the English shaped it into bars. They are all as guilty as we.
As we get older we get more sophisticated and discerning about how to spend our chocolate calories. Childhood’s milk chocolate has stepped aside. Now only the darkest, richest, silkiest chocolate will do to satisfy our chocolate obsession, for we savor it by the ounce, not the pound.