chocolate

Beautiful, mysterious Vianne Rocher and her young daughter arrive in Lansquenet-sous-Tannes at the start of the Lenten season where she proceeds to set up a chocolate shop, much to the chagrin of the local priest.

A boy acquires a magical gift that turns everything his lips touch into chocolate.

An introduction to the process of making chocolate, from the time the farmer plants a cocoa tree to the time someone eats a piece of candy.

After drinking enchanted hot chocolate, a brave young dragon is transformed into a twelve-year-old human girl with a passion for chocolate.

Tina eats so much chocolate that she wakes up one morning and finds that she has turned to chocolate.

"Twelve-year-old Coco Hidden has grown up in her mother's chocolate shop in Colorado, along with her friend Leo de la Cueva, but recently things have not been going well; the shop is failing, and Leo is hanging out with the other boys, and barely wants to talk to her--but when they both win a culinary contest, the two children and their mothers find themselves on a trip to the Amazon in Ecuador, where Coco hopes to find the rare ceiba tree, and where the plight of the native people and their jungle gives her a new perspective and purpose in life"--Provided by publisher.

Silke has an unexpected opportunity to learn what happened to her parents years before when Princess Katrin asks her to stay at the palace as a spy during a visit from the rulers of Elfenwald.

A cultural history of chocolate, examining its role in Aztec and Mayan rituals, status as an aphrodisiac, and popularity around the world, especially since the Spanish first encountered cacao beans in South America in the sixteenth century.

Read about the variety of processes that transform cocoa beans into chocolate bars.