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    A Nibble of Chocolate
    A Nibble of Chocolate
    A Nibble of Chocolate
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    A Nibble of Chocolate

    By Shireen Jeejeebhoy

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    Chocolate has always attracted me. From the time, a local shop owner gave me a small, free bite, I have been hooked. Most of my life, I've seen chocolate as a sinful indulgence, an addiction that only leads to a fat stomach.

    But chocolate isn't sinful. It's an amazing vegetable that does much for us and makes us feel good too. In this short ebook, I'll explore a brief history of chocolate, chocolate's nutritional qualities, its amazing "gopher tech." And, of course, no ebook on chocolate is complete without a sweet recipe.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShireen Jeejeebhoy
    Release dateMay 9, 2011
    ISBN9780987711045
    A Nibble of Chocolate
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    Shireen Jeejeebhoy

    I write a mix of books: novels, biography, short nonfiction. I set my novels in Toronto, my home for most of my life, a city of contradictions and ripe with conflict possibilities. My debut book, LIFELINER, is set in Ontario, but also travels down to New York and across the pond to Sweden. My life is one big question mark, has been ever since I sustained a closed head injury (or mild traumatic brain injury or concussion, whichever moniker is fashionable) in a four-car collision. But my writing keeps me grounded, my photography takes me to other places. I wrote about it and treatments I discovered in my revised memoir CONCUSSION IS BRAIN INJURY: TREATING THE NEURONS AND ME. When I'm not writing, reading, taking photographs, I'm hunting for good coffee and sensational chocolate.

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      A Nibble of Chocolate - Shireen Jeejeebhoy

      A NIBBLE OF CHOCOLATE

      by Shireen Jeejeebhoy

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2011 Shireen Anne Jeejeebhoy

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      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      Chapter One: An Introduction

      CHOCOLATE has always attracted me. From the time, a local shop owner gave me a small, free bite, I have been hooked, some would even say addicted. Most of my life, chocolate has been considered a sinful indulgence, an addiction that only leads to a fat stomach.

      But chocolate isn’t sinful at all. It’s an amazing vegetable that does much for us and makes us feel good too.

      In this ebook, I’ll explore the nutritional qualities of chocolate. Chapter One provides an overview of chocolate’s history and manufacture and of its nutritional composition. Chapter Two will look at cocoa butter, the key ingredient in making chocolate smooth and luscious. I’ll balance the (un)pleasant facts with a recipe using chocolate. And Chapter Three will reveal the metabolic benefits of theobromine, a relative of caffeine and one of the active ingredients in chocolate.

      Chocolate is a vegetable, a bean that is seductive and seducing, making pain almost disappear, if only temporarily, and bestowing a nice buzz of well being on the lucky chocolate eater.

      The original South Americans knew plenty about this surreal earthly blessing long before luxury-loving European aristocrats did. Montezuma drank a cold, bitter concoction of chocolate, corn meal,

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