Chocolate The Consuming Passion, Sandra Boynton. (Paperback 0894801996)

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Chocolate The Consuming Passion
Author: Sandra Boynton

This detailed handbook is for those who instinctively appreciate chocolate, but want to know more about it. Colorful illustrations help captivate those whose attention might otherwise wander. — First, there is a discussion of the five basic categories of chocolate, along with profiles of their corresponding personality types. — The second part dea... more »ls with the physiology and psychology of chocophilia. Seven common myths about chocolate's ill-effects on the body are decisively refuted, and profound advice is offered on enhancing a Relationship With Chocolate.

In Part Three -- Knowing Your Chocolate -- there are invaluable suggestions about how to best evaluate, handle, and make things with chocolate.

Finally, the last section tells where to get chocolate: how to grow it, show for it, send away for it, ask for it in a variety of languages ("OO ay l'sho-co-LAH l'ploo prosh?").

Lively, informative, and occasionally accurate, this is the perfect book for someone or other.

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A New York Times bestseller with over a half-million copies in print, CHOCOLATE continues to delight chocoholics everywhere. Packed with Boynton's famous hippos, bunnies, pigs, and other animals, this gift-perfect book is a whimsical commentary on the individual's relationship to chocolate, its varieties, and its sources.

From the several sorts of chocolate connoisseur-including the gourmoo, who eats only milk chocolate - to the several shapes of chocolate itself (bunny, kiss, glove compartment bar), Boynton's apologia for chocolate misses nothing. Myths are debunked: chocolate is not fattening, she argues, especially when the caloric expenditure of carrying it home from the store and hiding it from company is factored in. Directions are supplied: to remove stains, lick them. Plus, how to grow chocolate at home, a foolproof method for determining if chocolate is in season (does the name of the month contain the letter A, E, or U?), and a recipe for Hippo Pot de Mousse. "Fourteen out of ten people like chocolate," says the artist. This is the only guide for people who like chocolate the way they like to breathe. Vanilla people, keep out.

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(From back cover)

PIG. This comprehensive guide answers every possible question about chocolate.

TURKEY. Is chocolate available in nicer colors than brown?

PIG. This comprehensive guide answers every INTELLIGENT question about chocolate.

ISBN-13: 9780894801990
ISBN-10: 0894801996
Publication Date: 1/5/1982
Pages: 112
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Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Book Type: Paperback
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Jocelyn E. (hoopridge) reviewed Chocolate : The Consuming Passion on 11/30/2008 + 247 more book reviews

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Seriously, who doesn't love Sandra Boynton's illustrations? Her hippos, pigs, cats, and turkeys are so dang cute you almost want to throw up on them. But in a nice way.

With that in mind, this is a very funny book about being a chocolate addict. The different types of chocolate lovers are highlighted, as are recipes, how to ask, "Where is the nearest chocolate?" in various languages, and even a basic history of eating chocolate. A cute book for the chocolate lover in your life that won't make them want to throw up in any way.

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Nellie G. (Okie) reviewed Chocolate : The Consuming Passion on 4/9/2007 + 9 more book reviews

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If you are a chocoholic or know someone who is- this book is the comprehensive guide that answers every possible question about chocolate ( How do I know that?) It says so on the back cover. Read and laugh!

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Stephanie P. reviewed Chocolate : The Consuming Passion on 12/19/2006 + 16 more book reviews

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Very hilarious, and interesting book for the chocolate lover! On the back it says,"This comprehensive guide answers every possible question about chocolate."
Great book for laughing!

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Heather H. reviewed Chocolate : The Consuming Passion on 5/3/2009 + 3 more book reviews

I love this book - have read it over and over again - and always end up laughing (note: do not read while drinking chocolate milk!)

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