Cacao
As currency, beverage, and divine plant, cacao (Theobroma cacao, family Sterculiaceae) has played an important role in ancient Central American cultures. To the Mayans, the plant was a gift from...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chocolate enjoyed around
the world today had its origins at least 3,100 years ago in
Central America not as the sweet treat people now crave but as
a celebratory beer-li...
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Like a good Bordeaux or Chianti, some chocolate comes from a particular place _ the Indonesian island of Java or Venezuela's Sur del Lago, for example. As with wine grapes, the source of cacao bean...
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Even erotic food has to follow the rules OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's...
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Hamburg (dpa) - VfB Stuttgart stormed to the Bundesliga lead on
Saturday with one match to play, dethroning Schalke 04 who suffered
heartbreak instead of the title.
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Hamburg (dpa) - Schalke 04 struggled to keep the Bundesliga lead
on Saturday while VfB Stuttgart beat Bayern Munich 2-0 in a million-
dollar match.
A own goal...
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Like many battles, this one's being fought block by block. Victory, for whoever prevails, will be sweet. Or bitter _ or even bittersweet. It all depends on how you like your chocolate.At stake is t...
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Question 1 of 10:How many litres of champagne are in a Jereboam?a) 3 (1)b) 4.5 (0)c) 6 (0)d) 9 (0)Question 2 of 10:Where does the classic French soup Bouillabaisse originate from?a) Rouen (0)b) La ...
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Street vendors seem to encroach on every broken sidewalk, every open plaza, every grimy corner of downtown Caracas, most of them grinding out a living on the pavement for lack of a better option.Ve...
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Hamburg (dpa) - Bayern Munich are tumbling towards their worst
Bundesliga finish in a dozen years amid quite some gloating from the
German football community.
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Hurricane Noel, the deadliest storm to hit the Atlantic this year, paralleled the U.S. coast on Friday, losing strength as it headed north towards Nova Scotia.Noel slammed the Caribbean earlier thi...
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Cacao
Chocolate began as beer-like brew 3,100 years ago
