[Grig]

Chocolate - the other food group. :)

[mattdono]

Stained Teapot Reveals An Ancient Love Of Chocolate

They're not talking about Bill Clinton, are they? I think I was reading the headline as "Stained Sexpot Reveals an Ancient Love of Chocolate".

Maybe that is where little Danny (last?) came from?

[blam]

Theres a good article in this months Discover Magazine titled, Endangered Chocolate, seems our supply of chocolate is in danger due to diseases. (I tried to link the article but couldn't)

[spoiler2]

"The chocolate was poured from one vessel to another to produce a foam".

Looks like the preference for foamed coffee drinks goes back further than previously thought. Emerging Cappucino technology!

[SunkenCiv]

another "blast from the past" addition to GGG (harvested from keyword "ancient"):

Cradle of Chocolate?
Roger Segelken
Oct. 8, 1998
Cornell News Service

[A]rchaeologists from Cornell University and the University of California at Berkeley have found evidence of a village that was continuously occupied from 2000 B.C. to A.D. 1000 as well as hints to the secret of the community's remarkable longevity.

"My guess is, it all comes down to chocolate," says John S. Henderson, professor of anthropology at Cornell and co-director, together with Rosemary Joyce of Berkeley, of the archaeological dig at Puerto Escondido, Honduras. The type of ceremonial pottery uncovered by the archaeologists points to that region of Mesoamerica as a possible "Cradle of Chocolate."

Best of all, the link works. Open wide for Chunky.

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[SunkenCiv]

One of the decipherments (p 138) is the Mayan word for chocolate. :')

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Lost Languages: the Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts by Andrew Robinson

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