Chocolate

Chocolate describes a number of raw and processed foods that originate from the tropical cacao tree. It is a common ingredient in many kinds of sweets, chocolate candy, ice creams, cookies, cakes, pies, and desserts. It is one of the most popular flavours in the world.

Aztec. Man Carrying a Cacao Pod, 1440–1521. Volcanic stone, traces of red pigment. Brooklyn Museum.

Quotes

• Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
  • Forrest Gump

• Augustus: I'm Augustus Gloop. I love your chocolate.
  Willy Wonka: I can see that.
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

• Well, folks, it looks like we're up chocolate creek without a popsicle stick.
  • Gingerbread Man, Shrek 2

• Love, biochemically no different than consuming large quantities of chocolate.
  • The Devil's Advocate

• Eat your chocolates, little girl,
  Eat your chocolates!
  Believe me, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
  • Fernando Pessoa as Álvaro de Campos (heteronym), "The Tobacco Shop" (15 January 1928), trans. Richard Zenith, Fernando Pessoa and Co. (Grove Press, 1998)

• In the warmth of his mouth, the chocolate explodes into glorious peppery chocolate yum. For a second he closes his eyes against the delicious darkness, all his senses receding into sensation of pure bliss dancing on his tongue.
  • Ysabeau S. Wilce, The Lineaments of Gratified Desire (2006), reprinted in Rich Horton (ed.) Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2007, p. 178

• So why did Montezuma give his guest,

Hernain Cortes, that rather bitter "tea"

his Aztec farmers had carefully pressed

from the tropical seeds of the cacao tree?

And why did the Dominican friars bring

it back to Spain, from where, by chance,

the young Maria, engaged to the Bourbon King,

would introduce the "sweetened" drink to France?

And why, from London, did Mr. Fry present

to the waiting world the "chocolate bar," well worth

its weight in gold, and why did Nestle invent

"milk" chocolate, the greatest thing on earth?

To please, of course, my love, watching her VCR,

emparadised, eating her chocolate bar.

• William Baer, Chocolate (2006)

• "Today I had some Spanish chocolate and it tasted so good that I felt as though I were in heaven."

• Johanna Theresia Lamberg, Letter (1677)

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Chocolate on Wikipedia
• Media related to Chocolate on Wikimedia Commons
• Cookbook:Chocolate on Wikibooks
• Works related to Portal:Chocolate on Wikisource
• Chocolate travel guide from Wikivoyage