It’s Chocolate Day! How Will You Celebrate?

According to the National Confectioners Association, today is Chocolate Day. If you would like to find a few ways to celebrate, GALILEO offers a few resources.

MasterFILE Premier offers plenty of recipes to help you get your chocolate fix for the day. There are recipes for using chocolate in savory dishes, like tacos with a chocolate mole sauce or whole-wheat chocolate pancakes or a chocolate port sauce for grilled vegetables; in sweets, like these recipes for luxurious chocolate desserts or this dark chocolate ganache that will give any dessert another level of decadence; or even in your drink, like this chocolate martini. You’ll even find recipes for using chocolate in lighter, guilt-free desserts.

If you’re interested in the health benefits of chocolate and want to learn more about it, see these articles in Consumer Health Complete.

Finally, for a look at the history of chocolate and how’s made, check out the Chocolate article in the Encyclopædia Britannica.

Image from Encyclopædia Britannica

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