Chocolate News
Chocolate is Better than Cough Syrup for Curing your Cough, Doctor Reveals
MIRROR UK According to Professor Alyn Morice, head of cardiovascular and respiratory studies at the University of Hull and founding member of the International Society for the Study of Cough says, “chocolate can calm coughs”. The study of 163 people revealed that the patients taking chocolate-based medicine saw significant improvements in two days. According to Professor Morice, it’s due to chocolate’s “demulcent properties” – in other words, it’s sticky which means it forms a coating on the throat’s nerve endings, suppressing the urge to cough.20 pounds of hot chocolate (in one serving) coming to Midtown rooftop bar
The PHD Terrace inside the Dream Hotel Midtown, New York City, NY will be offering up a 20-pound spiked hot chocolate in time for National Hot Chocolate Day on Jan. 31. And the giant chocolatey drink will set you back only $375, or the equivalent of about 94 Starbucks grande hot chocolates. It’s available from January 31 through February 14th.
3,500 gallons of chocolate spill onto Interstate 40 in Northern Arizona
A tanker carrying 3,500 gallons of liquid chocolate rolled over, causing lane closures on Interstate 40 Monday afternoon as a river of chocolate flowed down the road, officials say. The chocolate weighed around 40,000 pounds. As one official tweeted, “this will be a sweet cleanup”.
8 Ways You’ve Been Eating Your Chocolate WRONG!
Before you say that there’s no “wrong” way to eat chocolate – think again! By considering doing 8 things to help you enjoy chocolate, you’ll be assured of enjoying chocolate in a way you’ve never enjoyed it before.
Austin bar offers $100 martini featuring once-extinct chocolate
Would you spend $100 on a martini? How about a martini featuring “perhaps the rarest and most expensive chocolate in the world”? Academia has a cocktail on the menu that is really priced at $100. The reason the martini is so expensive is the aforementioned chocolate. It’s To’ak Chocolate, made from the oldest known variety of cacao and so rare the tree it’s harvested from was once thought to have been extinct.