This article is from the Chocolate FAQ, by Monee Kidd faq@choco.com with numerous contributions by others.
A reader of the old alt.food.chocolate once asked:
"I would be very much obliged if someone could tell me how a food
that has been associated with acne, headaches, obesity and many a trip
to the dentist has managed to attract so much favorable attention."
In the eighteenth century a Swedish naturalist named Carolus Linneaus
who created the modern system of naming all the living things on the earth
called the tree from which chocolate comes 'Cacao theobroma' - Cacao,
food of the gods. For centuries, the world has had a sweet love affair
with this most delectable of foods. Why *does* this sweet confection have
so many admirers? Perhaps we should start at the beginning...
 
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