Review: will leave you craving your favorites
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 4, 2014
If you use chocolate for baking or confectionary, or just love chocolate this is a fun free ebook with a lot of history facts and information about chocolate. On the fact side, this ebook is pretty comprehensive: types of chocolate, chocolate benefits, how to store chocolate, and chocolate uses, interspersed with fun quotes about chocolate.The historical chocolate date list was interesting, especially considering that chocolate, in the form we know today, is probably only about 150 years or less old. Most of the quotes are anon contributed and are lighthearted inserts. More literary quotes about chocolate would have been great.  I mean, no mention of Forrest Gump (that I saw)?The book does go over some tips on how to use chocolate and references the internet (but no links) as a source for recipes. While the book clearly states that it is not a recipe book in the title, I would have enjoyed it a bit more if they had put in one recipe per category (i.e. one chocolate smoothie recipe, one chocolate cookie recipe, one hot chocolate recipe etc...) although perhaps this wasn't done due to copyright issues.There is a slight discussion about using Fair Trade chocolates, but no sources (hyperlinks are given to other chocolate sources at the end of the book, most if not all are not using Fair Trade) are given. If you want a list Google "fair trade chocolate sources" - most chocolates offered at health food stores are fair trade but check the front label where it is usually predominately mentioned (organic does not equal fair trade) or check out fairtradeusa.org for a list.Because prices on these ebooks fluctuate a lot at Amazon I mention this: for the free price, this book definitely covered its topic well. With a few additions and expansions I would think this book could go to 99 cents or 1.99 and be a good value for the chocolate lover.Reviewed by Cinnabarys.com