The National Retail Feder
ation says about 50 percent of consumers will buy candy for Valentine’s Day 2017, spending about $1.7 billion on candy alone. Are you buying chocolate for Valentine’s Day?
Some books about chocolate available in the library:
The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars by Joël Glenn Brenner
The New Taste of Chocolate: A Cultural and Natural History of Cacao with Recipes by Maricel E. Presilla
The Essence of Chocolate: Recipes for Baking and Cooking with Fine Chocolate by John Scharffenberger and Robert Steinberg with Ann Krueger Spivack and Susie Heller; photography by Deborah Jones
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