Chocolate can prevent heart disease and act as a love potion! What has your health food done for you lately?
There is probably no food as amusing and complex or with a more fascinating history than chocolate. Long ago cacao beans could be used to buy slaves and were even used as cold, hard, cash.
In the modern world chocolate is still one of the most highly-revered foods. It is unmatched in flavor compounds (over 1,500 have been discovered), has a whopping global market value of over $80 billion… and it’s still used to seduce! Some things never change!
Rich Chocolate, Rich History
In Chocolate at Home: How to Make your own Homemade Chocolate Creations out of Nature’s Most Complex and Antioxidant-Rich Food (Paleo-friendly), Ben Hirshberg walks you through the history of chocolate—a history so grand it can only be matched by the richness of its flavor. Then Hirshberg gives an in-depth analysis of chocolate’s many health-enhancing attributes.
Chocolate for your health?
In recent times chocolate has even started taking the role of a superfood—it is one of the highest known sources of antioxidants, scientifically proven to lower the risk of heart disease, and researchers are realizing that this may only be the tip of the iceberg.
If you would like to deepen your appreciation for chocolate and pick up some nifty historical tidbits while simultaneously learning about chocolate’s vast health benefits and obliterating the “guilty” part of your favorite guilty pleasure, then you owe it to yourself to read this book. Perhaps most importantly though, this book will show you how to make your own chocolate creations at home—free of toxic and undesirable additives and with a much greater variety than what you can find in stores. Included are over a dozen quick and easy recipes ranging from peppermint to coffee to bacon (yes, bacon!) which can please the palate of the simple and gourmand alike.
What are you waiting for? Buy Chocolate at Home today and begin your sweet, sweet journey to better health.
