Chocolate For Everybody
Try asking people around about what their favorite food is to match their sweet tooth and certainly most if not all of them will answer chocolate. Do not just ask the little kids or the young adults because even middle aged people and the senior citizens still fancy this ultimate chocolate delight. If you base it solely to that, you can easily conclude that chocolate is one the most loved food there is in the whole wide world. Because of that, it has been made available for everyone to enjoy.
Based on practices, chocolates have been a part of the rewards and punishments as a disciplinary method among children. If they scored high in tests or if they made a good deed, they will be rewarded with a box of these sweets. But if they did the opposite, they will be grounded and deprived from these delicious chocolates for a period of time.
Onto the next age level which is the teens or the youth. Chocolate is every girl’s best friend. If they are sad and troubled, they would drown themselves in chocolate and feel better after downing a handful of it. Chocolates have also evolved into becoming a symbol of love and affection. It is a favorite gift given to a person dear to you. The sweetness of every bite size reflects the feelings of the sender towards the receiver of the gift.
Moreover, when people reach middle age they still have that special attachment towards chocolates. Unfortunately, in this age group entails a lot of problems and complications when it comes to health. Although the cocoa is nothing but alluring, the sugar content is what’s holding them back most specifically to the ones diagnosed with Diabetes. But the good news is, since chocolate is for everybody, manufacturers found ways to lessen the sugar content or even make it sugar free but still keeping intact the sweetness that it brings.
For the older ones, the availability of hot chocolate has been their favorite. Alongside that is the introduction of dark chocolate syrup. The strength of the taste and aroma brings them back to their younger years when they used to eat as much as they want with no holds barred.
With the increasing demand of chocolates in the market, more and more manufactures have innovated their production and made a wider range of flavors. Because of that, chocolate has been made very cheap and affordable making it a staple favorite for all the people in the world, young or old.
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Chocolate in China
Staff at World Chocolate Wonderland in China have assembled a replica of the Great Wall of China and created terracotta warriors all out chocolate. This is an effort to help popularize chocolate in China.
Here’s the whole article, complete with video:
http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/ns_life/2010-01-15/988202349855.html
The World Chocolate Wonderland display opens to the public at the end of January.
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From the Bean to the Bar
There is much more to making fine chocolate than picking a cacao bean and cooking it. Going from tree to chocolate bar takes a special touch to achieve the perfection you’re looking for.
Bean selection is the first step in making chocolate. If the bean chosen isn’t of high quality, the end result will be a less than desirable chocolate. Therefore, many fine chocolate makers take time to personally select the best beans.
Once a chocolatier selects the beans they are roasted. The roasting process has a great impact on the finished flavor. After roasting, the beans are put into a grinding process. The pulverized mass is called chocolate liquor and is turned into the actual chocolate.
To create the final chocolate bar from chocolate liquor, sugar and other ingredients are added to the liquor. Then another grinding process called refining is begun. Refining crushes everything and helps ensure that that the chocolate bar doesn’t have a grainy feeling in your mouth. Following the refining process, the mix is cooked and stirred in a process called conching. This step can take place over a few hours or days. It is at this point that chocolate begins to take on the flavor that most chocoholics love.
After conching, cocoa butter can be added to change the flow. Then the chocolate can be put into its final form, liquid or solid. If the final product is in solid form it must be tempered. Then it is packaged and shipped. If it took the form of a chocolate bar, now it’s finally ready for you to purchase and eat. Yum.
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