The aphrodisiac story of chocolate is an ancient one, going聽back all the way to 1519 and the first visit of the Spanish explorer Hernando Cortes to Mexico.聽Cortes found much to his liking here, in...
The term derives from 鈥渜uaranta giorni,鈥� meaning 40 days, and traces back to the 14th century when the city of Dubrovnik, now in Croatia, was under Venetian rule. The Great Pestilence, or the Great...
