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I don\u2019t care if its milk, dark or light, its chocolate and should be enjoyed \u2013 anytime \u2013 anywhere.<\/p>\n
As a dedicated chocolate lover, I decided to check some chocolate facts and look what I found.<\/p>\n
The cocoa beans grow inside the cacao fruit. It takes about 900 cacao beans to make 1 kilo of chocolate. We cannot turn our backs on such effort.<\/p>\n
More important, here are some of the benefits:<\/p>\n
While checking these invaluable facts I learned Napoleon loved chocolate and demanded it be available at all times, including his military campaigns. (I wouldn\u2019t be at all surprised to learn his chocolate was stolen by the Duke of Wellington before the Battle of Waterloo.)<\/p>\n
Chocolate plays an important role in society. Grandma\u2019s birthday. ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Depositphotos_13889441_s-2019_Chocolate1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1\")
Valentine\u2019s Day. A thank you. A peace offering, often accompanied with flowers. What better housewarming gift than a chocolate and wine hamper? Heck, any excuse will do.<\/p>\n
\u2018Ah\u2019, some righteous souls will say. \u2018It can be addictive.\u2019 Of course<\/em> it\u2019s addictive! One look at a box of chocolates and I\u2019m an addict and a thief. I can be trusted with someone else\u2019s money, car, wine but I freely admit, I cannot be trusted with their chocolate.<\/p>\n It has just occurred to me that the characters in my historical novels have enjoyed wine and good food but not chocolate. That unforgivable omission will be rectified in my current novel under construction. One character might just gorge on it to justify my bad habits.<\/p>\n So, now we know milk dark or light is good for our health and well being we can indulge without any guilt. – and the witty sign at climate rallies puts it in a nutshell. \u201cSave the Earth \u2013 It\u2019s the only planet with chocolate.\u201d<\/p>\n What do you think?<\/p>\n Read the next blog in the blog hop by going here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jan<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n The Woman Behind the Mirror\u00a0<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don\u2019t care if its milk, dark or light, its chocolate and should be enjoyed \u2013 anytime \u2013 anywhere. As a dedicated chocolate lover, I decided to check some chocolate facts and look what I found. The cocoa beans grow inside the cacao fruit. It takes about 900 cacao beans to make 1 kilo of … Continue reading “Chocolate \u2013 milk, dark or light? Jan Selbourne #MFRWauthor”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1070,5,1246,1],"tags":[1399,1398,28],"class_list":["post-2526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-52-week-challenge","category-author-information","category-mfrw","category-uncategorized","tag-benefits-of-chocolate","tag-chocolate","tag-jan-selbourne"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wA33-EK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2526"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2539,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions\/2539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Lies of Gold<\/a>\u2014Silver Historical for 2019: Coffee Pot Book Club<\/p>\n\n\n