Chocolate Trivia – Statistics and Interesting Information
How much does one really know about chocolate? We like to eat it – but what else do we know? Fittingly, chocolate has a very rich and romantic past. Once a prized possession of Native American tribes, the cacao...
History of Chocolate – Trivia and Information
Chocolate is made from beans of the cacao tree which is indigenous to the rainforests of the Americas. First cultivated by the Maya and Aztec, the cacao tree was discovered over 2,000 years ago, and the cacao beans were...
Fresh Pumpkin Pie Recipe
Each year, millions of pumpkins are sold every October, mostly to carve into Jack O Lanterns. After Halloween, 100s of tons of pumpkins go into the trash. This is a tragedy of epic proportions. Next year, instead of consigning...
What to Serve Vegetarians At Thanksgiving
I've been a vegetarian for over 7 years, but I grew up in central Illinois, which is almost synonymous with saying I was raised by meat eaters. For the first 22 years I was alive, I ate meat. This made my first several vegetarian Thanksgivings very hard. What about...
Lemons – Trivia and Information
The lemon is a fruit with which everyone is familiar. We put lemon wedges in our ice tea, make fresh-squeezed lemonade with this tasty yellow fruit, squeeze it on apples to keep them from turning brown, and come up with a myriad of other uses for this versatile fruit....
Green Tea Vs. Black Tea – Which is Better?
You have heard the old saying Well, you shouldn't judge a book by its cover.' But should we judge a tea by its color? There are four main types of tea out there and the two most popular of these would have to be Green Tea and Black Tea....
