Aztec. Man Carrying a Cacao Pod, 1440–1521. Volcanic stone, traces of red pigment. Brooklyn Museum.

Chocolate describes a number of raw and processed foods that originate from the tropical cacao tree. It is a common ingredient in many kinds of sweets, chocolate candy, ice creams, cookies, cakes, pies, and desserts. It is one of the most popular flavours in the world.

Quotes

• Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
  • Forrest Gump

• Augustus: I'm Augustus Gloop. I love your chocolate.
  Willy Wonka: I can see that.
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

• Well, folks, it looks like we're up chocolate creek without a popsicle stick.
  • Gingerbread Man, Shrek 2

• Love, biochemically no different than consuming large quantities of chocolate.
  • The Devil's Advocate

• Eat your chocolates, little girl,
  Eat your chocolates!
  Believe me, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
  • Fernando Pessoa as Álvaro de Campos (heteronym), "The Tobacco Shop" (15 January 1928), trans. Richard Zenith, Fernando Pessoa and Co. (Grove Press, 1998)

• In the warmth of his mouth, the chocolate explodes into glorious peppery chocolate yum. For a second he closes his eyes against the delicious darkness, all his senses receding into sensation of pure bliss dancing on his tongue.
  • Ysabeau S. Wilce, The Lineaments of Gratified Desire (2006), reprinted in Rich Horton (ed.) Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2007, p. 178

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Chocolate on Wikipedia
• Media related to Chocolate on Wikimedia Commons
• Cookbook:Chocolate on Wikibooks
• Works related to Portal:Chocolate on Wikisource
• Chocolate travel guide from Wikivoyage