Lately, the weather has been so odd that it is difficult to tell whether we should be warming up inside with a cup of hot chocolate or cooling down in the shade with a cone of chocolate ice cream.

600 B.C. — Jugs dating to this time hold a residue of cocoa, the earliest evidence of chocolate consumption. The ancient cultures of Mexico and Central America are the first people to produce ...

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