History of Chocolate

Although cocoa trees grew wild in Central America since pre-historic times, it was not until around 600AD when Maya Indians established cocoa plantations in the Yucatan region of Mexico. The Mayans and later the Aztecs took the cocoa bean from …

All Things Italian

Salve! These past days (not necessarily few), I have found myself inclined to all things Italian. The idea may have occurred to me while I read Dan Brown’s latest book (definitely not the first one in which the setting is …