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Cioccolata (Chocolate)

Chocolate is actually invented by the Mexican Aztec Indians.  They even used as currency.  Of course, once the Italians got hold of it, there was no end to what they used it for, from cappuccino toppings to desserts to chocolate covered canoli.  You can use this to serve over ice cream, desserts, crepes, even heat some milk and make hot chocolate.   The tomatoes too, were brought over by Columbus from the Americas.  Even still, the Italians took this food and perfected it.  Nothing seems to go better with chocolate than the taste of ground espresso coffee beans.  

It is estimated that chocolate is the 3rd largest export of the world (coffee and sugar being first and second).  It is said that chocolate has a pleasure-producing chemical called phenylethaylamine, which is the same substance released by the brain when people fall in love, thus making it also an aphrodisiac.   


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