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Survivorsucks.com put it far better than I can (in the interest of keeping TIME.com a web site that Mom and Dad and the kids can huddle around over mugs of hot cocoa): "Holy...
...house in Feasterville, Pa., just north of Philadelphia. Arrayed on tray-size boards and more than 20 6-ft.-tall racks are some 50,000 living spiders representing dozens of species: sleek, lacquered western black widows, hairy fishing spiders, palm-size Gramostola spatulata from Chile, even a fist-size, cocoa-brown African king baboon tarantula...
...Even without an educated palate, I can tell the difference between a 72% Madagascar and a 72% Venezuelan bean," sniffs Pierrick Chouard, owner of the American subsidiary of Michel Cluizel, a French chocolatier that puts a genealogy of its cocoa beans inside its gift boxes. In the U.S., the Colorado-based Chocolove takes its cue from another prestige consumable and sells a chocolate humidor, a cedar-lined box that protects the candy from the elements. Its president, Timothy Moley, can tell "whether or not the beans were ripe, whether they were fermented and cured properly and how long...
...COCOA PUFF Hard to believe, but cocoa--well, a defatted extract of it--may be good for the heart. In a study, rabbits were fed a cholesterol-rich diet along with 200 mg of the extract daily. After two months, the bunnies' blood vessels did a better job contracting and relaxing than the vessels of rabbits fed the same diet but deprived of the extract. Cocoa contains powerful antioxidants called flavonoids that sweep up damaging molecules in cells. The rabbit news isn't license to drown in hot chocolate. But food companies are working on cocoa-extract supplements...
...Pick-pockets on the Harvard campus would come up dry, except in the pants of this anonymous female where everything smells of cocoa butter. To grab her cash, one must squeeze her way through the gooey layers of cocoa butter lotion and jumbo roll of cocoa butter lip gloss...