Chocolate Solves The World’s Problems

0 CommentsFriday • January 21, 2011 • by Imei

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Several years ago, I received an email from a colleague in health care that included a bold statement about his feelings for chocolate. While he wasn’t writing as the physician and medical researcher that he is, nor representing the foundations or organizations for whom he works, his words have left an indelible mark on my foodie soul:

CHOCOLATE SOLVES MOST OF THE WORLD’S PROBLEMS.

In approximately twenty-four days, an deep groan will emerge from the throats of people engaged in a desperate, last-minute search for this delicious problem-solver. While chocolate doesn’t actually solve most of the world’s problems, it certainly can distract, entertain, ravish, and otherwise engage the mind and body in a sensual dance of pleasure so that either:

1. The world’s problems appear more solvable after consuming chocolate,

OR

2. The world’s problems are a little bit more bearable (this one is more likely, as perspective has a lot to do with how we feel).

None of this diminishes the fact that you and I have LOTS of world problems to tackle. For example, one of mine is my choice to help raise money for Doctors Without Borders in light of the cholera epidemic in Haiti. It’s just that I realize that while I have no particular Valentine in mind for Feb 14, 2011, somehow, someway, in some variation or other, my mind is strongly fixated on the idea that there will be (dark) chocolate. Oh yes, there will be chocolate!

zChocolate thinks so too. I’ve browsed their selections in both drive-by fashion, as well as slow and lingering analysis, and I’ve concluded that they will be mine! And they can be yours as well. This year, don’t wait to line up at a local store and buy a tiny box of four truffles for your honey bunny where you suspect they somehow charge for the ribbon on the box (!). Order your bon bons, include a little extra for yourself, and be sure to wipe that smile off your face after you consume them on the way to that important board meeting, or people are going to think you took a break to go and get freshly loved, if you know what I mean.

These chocolates not only have cool, post-modern names like Sputnik 15 and Dawn, they come in trendy packaging that can be reused. Some of the high-end chocolate boxes look too pretty to eat, but I’m sure I could convince myself to jump in head first.

How good are these chocolates? From the zChocolate website FAQs page, zchocolat is an award-winning chocolate in the Top 5 Chocolates for Valentine’s Day and has won “Best of the Web” since 2005. The chocolate is handmade by world champion chocolatier Meilleur Ourvier de France.

I want candy!

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