[Sca-cooks] Chocolate article

[Susan Fox]

Article concerning Chocolate in Renaissance Italy:

:The Medicis, the family that dominated the Italian Renaissance, used
chocolate as a powerful political tool to impose the Florentine taste in
European courts, according to an exhibition that traces the history of
chocolate from its arrival to Europe in the 16th century."

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060327/chocolate_his.html?source=rss

Chocoholically yours, Selene