Did you know that chocolate chips were created by accident? And now a whole day is dedicated to the sweet treat ingredient. Chocolate Chip Day takes place on May 15 each year. Though chocolate chips ...

Valentine’s Day and chocolate — they simply go hand in hand. In recent years, the confection has been regarded as the symbol of affection with stores and major retailers selling them by the box. But ...

A word of vocabulary here_ Cacao (Theobroma cacao) is the tree, cocoa is the name of the beans, and chocolate is the confection made from cocoa beans. Sometime around 1000 B.C. the Maya, whose ...

Nothing says Valentine’s Day quite like chocolate, but long before it was paired with hearts and flowers, chocolate played important roles in cultures around the world, according to a new book for ...

Katie Sampeck, a historian at the University of Reading, explores chocolate's cultural history, tracing its origins from ancient Amazonian cultivation through its integration into European diets. She ...

Chocolate is easy to buy in modern times, but when it first arrived in Europe it was treated as an expensive food for aristocrats and the wealthy. Miles Pattenden, who studies the history of the ...

It seems like pretty much everyone is a chocolate person around Valentine's Day—chocolate desserts, chocolate-dipped strawberries, heart-shaped boxes of chocolate everywhere you look—but there are ...

World Chocolate Day 2020: Know all about the history of this day. Cacao beans, which are used to derive chocolate, were first brought into use in Mesoamerica about 3,900 years ago. The earliest ...

Among the many sweet moments of Valentine's Week, Chocolate Day stands out as a celebration of love, indulgence, and joy. Observed on February 9th, this day is dedicated to the universal delight of ...