Throughline host Rund Abdelfatah brings us the story of the origins of chocolate.

Did you know that chocolate chips were created by accident? And now a whole day is dedicated to the sweet treat ingredient. Chocolate Chip Day takes place on May 15 each year. Though chocolate chips ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (FEBRUARY 16, 2017) – Old Salem Museums & Gardens in conjunction with AMERICAN HERITAGE® Chocolate and The Historic Division of Mars is presenting its fourth annual day of fun ...

Valentine’s Day and chocolate — they simply go hand in hand. In recent years, the confection has been regarded as the symbol of affection with stores and major retailers selling them by the box. But ...

A word of vocabulary here_ Cacao (Theobroma cacao) is the tree, cocoa is the name of the beans, and chocolate is the confection made from cocoa beans. Sometime around 1000 B.C. the Maya, whose ...

Nothing says Valentine’s Day quite like chocolate, but long before it was paired with hearts and flowers, chocolate played important roles in cultures around the world, according to a new book for ...

There’s something about Howard-Yana Shapiro that inspires trust — at least when it comes to cacao. The author of “The History of Chocolate” (National Geographic Society, $20) is a Santa Claus ...

World Chocolate Day 2020: Know all about the history of this day. Cacao beans, which are used to derive chocolate, were first brought into use in Mesoamerica about 3,900 years ago. The earliest ...

When most of us hear the word chocolate, we picture a bar, a box of bonbons, or a bunny. The verb that comes to mind is probably "eat," not "drink," and the most apt adjective would seem to be "sweet.